Amazon frogbit (floating)
Limnobium laevigatum
PlantsFreshwater
- Care level
- Easy
- Maximum size
- 8 cm
- 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.
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