Salvinia Minima Care & Growth Benefits
- Nov 25, 2024
- Anshika Mishra
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In this article, we'll discuss an aquarium floating plant known as Salvinia Minima. It almost looks like a cat tongue and is also known as water spangles.
It is one of the most accessible aquarium floating plants to care for. Most people get it into their aquarium, knowing it is a floating plant. Most floating plants like stagnant water surfaces.
Surface Agitation
Step one to taking care of Salvinia Minima is to get the least amount of surface agitation possible. Adding a sponge filter to your tank that sits on the side of your tank is highly recommended because they are great with an angeled elbow at the top of the water surface that helps determine the water current.
You don't want a lot of water flow. If you have a hang-in-the-back filter, floating plants won't survive due to excess current.
Therefore, get a valve on your sponge filter and turn it down to the lowest flow possible.
Light
The Salvinia Minima plant loves very intense lighting. A generic garage shop light works great.
Also, the light rises above the surface. Because if you put the light on top of your tank, it will burn up the floating plant because it is too close.
Fertilizer
The visual aesthetic of this plant is that it looks like a cat's tongue. To bring out its best color, have some nutrients in the water. A lot of planted tank setups have a special substrate, like dirt. However, this plant consumes all of its nutrients from the water.
So get some liquid fertilizer. Dose it in your tank with a few pumps every week or per the bottle's directions.
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