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Indian Waterweed
Hygrophila polysperma
Family: Acanthaceae
📍 India & Southeast Asia
The quintessential beginner stem plant — grows rapidly in almost any conditions without CO2. Under high light the leaves take on a pink hue. Excellent as a background filler or for fishrooms and breeding tanks.
Keeping this species
- CO2
- not needed
- lighting
- low–high
- maxHeight
- 50+ cm
- placement
- background
- substrate
- any
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–8.0
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 2–25 dGH
- temperature
- 64–86°F (18–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
72°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, May high)
Stats
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