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Hornwort
Ceratophyllum demersum
Family: Ceratophyllaceae
📍 Worldwide (widely distributed)
Hornwort is one of the most adaptable aquatic plants available, surviving in a wide range of conditions from cold ponds to tropical tanks. It requires no substrate and can float or be anchored. It grows rapidly, absorbing nutrients, and provides excellent cover for fry.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Water column nutrient uptake
- light
- Low to high
- tank size
- No minimum
- growth rate
- Very fast
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <40 ppm
- hardness
- 5–15 dGH
- temperature
- 59–86°F (15–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
59°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jul high)