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Microsorum Trident
Microsorum pteropus 'Trident'
Family: Polypodiaceae
The trident java fern is a cultivar with deeply lobed, multi-pronged fronds that create an elegant, fern-like silhouette. Like all java ferns it attaches to hardscape and requires no substrate. Very low-maintenance and suitable for low-tech tanks.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Water column feeder – attach to hardscape
- light
- Low to medium
- tank size
- 15 gallons minimum
- growth rate
- Slow
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 1–15 dGH
- temperature
- 68–82°F (20–28°C)
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