Salvinia
Salvinia auriculata
Also called floating fern.
Doubles weekly and will shade everything under it. Thin it out.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 3 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 20 L, at least 30 cm long
- Temperature
- 20 to 28 °C
- pH
- 6 to 7.5
- Hardness
- 2 to 15 dGH
- Grown
- floating at the surface, never pushed under
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a salvinia fits the tank you have.