Amazon frogbit (floating)
Limnobium laevigatum
PlantsFreshwater
- Care level
- Easy
- Temperature
- 20–28 °C
- pH
- 6–7.8
- Light
- Medium
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
Care at a glance
Amazon frogbit is a floating plant with round, glossy leaves and an impressive veil of white roots hanging far down into the water. Those roots are half the reason to get it: shrimp and small fry find cover there, and micro-life grows on them continuously.
It also dims the light, which is calming for forest fish and counters algae on the bottom, and it pulls a lot of nutrients from the water. The pitfall is that it can close over the surface entirely; scoop some out regularly. Make sure the top of the leaves stays dry — condensation and spray from the filter make them rot away.
Related species
Values are mainstream hobbyist guidance, not gospel — always watch what your own animals need.
In the BlubHub app you link your inhabitants to this database and see the care info next to your own water parameters.