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Water Lettuce
Pistia stratiotes
Family: Araceae
📍 Tropical regions worldwide
Water lettuce is a floating rosette plant with velvety, pale green leaves and a substantial root system. It provides excellent shade, nutrient export, and shelter for surface-shy fish. It grows rapidly in bright conditions and may become invasive outdoors.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Water column nutrient uptake
- light
- High
- tank size
- No minimum – floating
- growth rate
- Fast
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <40 ppm
- hardness
- 3–20 dGH
- temperature
- 68–86°F (20–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
72°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, May high)