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Salvinia
Salvinia minima
Family: Salviniaceae
📍 South America (widely spread)
Salvinia is a fast-growing floating fern that creates dense surface cover. Its tiny textured leaves repel water, forming a green carpet on the surface. Excellent for nutrient export and providing shade for light-sensitive plants and fish below.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Water column nutrient uptake
- light
- Low to high
- tank size
- No minimum – floating
- growth rate
- Very fast
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.8
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <40 ppm
- hardness
- 1–20 dGH
- temperature
- 64–86°F (18–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
68°F — 82°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jun high)