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Congo Fern
Bolbitis heudelotii
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Bolbitis is a slow-growing African water fern with elegant, translucent dark green fronds. It attaches to rocks and wood like java fern and anubias, and thrives in moderate flow. CO2 and good lighting significantly improve its growth rate.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Beneficial
- diet
- Water column feeder – attach to hardscape
- light
- Low to medium
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- growth rate
- Slow
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 1–12 dGH
- temperature
- 72–82°F (22–28°C)
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