Mini Water Lettuce. Floating Plant for your shrimps

Posted in April 24, 2013 ¬ 11:44 PMh.Igor KanshynNo Comments »

Mini Water Lettuce is another suitable floating plant for a shrimp tank. I was writing about amazon frogbit before. These plants are quite similar in keeping and grows speed.

Shrimp-Tank.com Mini water lettuce plant

Scientific name of this plant is Pistia Stratiotes. There are different varieties that mostly different in size and shape of leaves. Mine is small. I keep it in aquarium not in a pond and It has rounded leaves. This plant look nice, that’s for sure. But that are the other benefits you will get? It clears water by using all ammonia, nitrates and minerals as fertilizers. It reduces light inside tank and significantly increases aquarium surface available for shrimps to hang on and bacteria to grow. Another important advantage of water lettuce is low maintenance. Planting, cutting, tripping is not required. The only thing you need to do it remove some plants from your tank from time and not let it take over all the surface area and block all your light. I almost forget that your tiger or amano shrimps will jump out less from the tank. Floating plant will serve as a tank hood Noticeable difference between mini water lettuce and amazon frogbit is roots. Amazon frogbit can grow very long roots that may turn your tank into a real jungle. Mini water lettuce has shorter, but more bushy roots. I personally like their view more. Look at some pictures of mini water lettuceplant I made from the top of the tank.