Amazon Frogbit- Care and How this Floating Plant Can be a VALUABLE RESOURCE for your Aquarium!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- We will go over basic care for this Amazing Plant and how you can Utilize it in your Fish Tank as a VALUABLE RESOURCE
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That breaking the leaf in half broke my soul 😂
Me and my fish love the frogbit! Your teaching style is excellent!
Frogbit rocks! Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video!
I love the way frogbit looks, maybe I will try them out. When I set up my first planted tank I had water lettuce and red root floaters. The water lettuce roots grew so long and lush! Now that the tank is established the roots don't grow so long. I think the new set up just had tons of nutrients in the water, and now it's not so much. I put most of the excess floating plants in my pond, and they grew massive! I had to take some of them out, because I realized they were blocking gas exchange when my giant snail nearly died. There are so many things I still need to learn.
The learning never ends!
I just put some frogbit in my little aquarium and added a bigger filter in the hopes that it will help reduce the need for frequent water changes. I really appreciate all the good information you provided, especially about how the health of the plant can be an indicator/caution sign about things changing in the tank. Looking forward to looking at more of your videos. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Lots of great information!!
Glad it was helpful!
One of the best Frogbit video on UA-cam
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it
Excellent video! Very informative and exactly what I was looking for. It’s great to see one video that actually answered all my questions directly. Thank you!
Thanks! I’m glad it answered your questions, that’s what I was hoping for!
I use and love a lot of different floating plants, Amazon frogbit (Limnobium laeviatum), Red Root Floater (Phyllanthus fluitans), Narrow Leaf Water Sprite/Indian Fern (Ceratopteris thalictroides), Ceratophyllum demersum - coontail, hornwort, Narrow Leaf Anacharis , Salvinia minima, baby water lettuce (Pistia stratioes), Salvinia minima, Salvinia Cucullata, duckweed (small and giant), and Wolffia, a particularly tiny type of duckweed. I have soft well water low in minerals so I need to add gh booster and ferts to my water to grow all of these.
My turtles LOOOOVE frogbit & duckweed ! Whenever it blows up/over grows in my tanks, i just scoop it & toss it in the turtle pond.. Especially if u have older turtles that need more vegetation in their diet.
I love your plants! You have a fantastic setup. Thanks for the info.
Thank YOU!
I just got some from my LFS. I’ve killed a lot of salvinia, but the frog bit seems to be taking quite well! The roots died back and it turned quite yellow at first, but it didn’t take long (2 weeks) to start growing new runners and new roots. I like the look more than the salvinia in my own tanks.
Very informative. Thankyou
Glad it was helpful!
Exellent 😊video
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the info. Love your setups they are so green. I started keeping planted tanks in September of 2023. Videos like this help so much. Have a happy New Year 🎉
Awesome! Glad to help!
Hi I also grow frogbits they are the only floating plant I have luck with thankyou for another great video.
You’re welcome ! Glad frogbit is working well for you
Love the video. I noticed there is a hang on the back filter flowing, and yet still, you have great growth and proliferation of the frogbit. I always had poor luck with floating plants, and I always attributed it to the constant flow from my HOB.
Thanks! I made water deflectors from pieces of plastic water jug to direct the water flow downward as it comes out of the HOB which minimizes the water surface disturbance.
Thank you. That's a great idea. I will give that a go 👍
Amazing, it will let you know if you're feeding enough or too much! Just bought some some cups of frogbit today! Thanks so much for the tips. No plans to do a water change anytime soon!
Have fun! Just be sure to keep testing your water to make sure it stays stable.
@@plantlifeproject cheers! It's been nearly 9 months since I set the tank up, haven't done a water change yet. Fish, shrimp and snails thriving. There's even cory fry in the tank, water must be perfect I guess?
Hi Andrew, I bought 15 bits of frogbit last year and I now have it in 15 of my tanks now, when I have an over abundance of them I actually feed it to my apple snails in their tank, they prefer that to any other aquatic plant ive found up to date, cheers from Fife 🏴
That’s a great way to utilize the resource! I wish I could get my goldfish to eat my extra frogbit entirely. They will chow down on duckweed which is very helpful.
@@plantlifeproject yeah my goldies love duckweed too mate, good way of getting rid of it too lol 😂
Nice video. I have noticed very similar things in my tanks using dwarf water lettuce. I found it very interesting and wonder if maybe there are more floating plants that could be used to observe tank conditions.
Thanks! Duckweed for sure, I think
Struggling hard with frogbit. Trying some of these tips and tricks
Hope it helps you!
Exellent video 😊
Thank you for this info very helpful 🦐🐌🐠
Great video. Really informative
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
U def deserve the LIKE..
Thank you much, glad you liked it!
Good video , I can’t upload a picture.. I just noticed a hulk out frogbit with arm length roots like in the video …
The other in a different tank shaded roots do not grow more then 1 inch
They are about 6mth old but looks completely different..
Amazing information and video thank you good sir I just found your channel and subscribed
Thank you, I’m glad it was helpful! Welcome to the channel
I have this plant. It gives a beautiful look to the tank, but I noticed today that the roots have become brown, something brown like cotton.. What is the reason? Is it a good or bad thing?
Thank you for the wonderful video! Went out to buy some after watching, but it keeps getting sucked under the filter overflow and pushed under water. As a result it all died - do you know of a tidy looking way to keep it out of the overflow? I've seen a few solutions with tubing and suction cups but it doesn't look very natural.
I have used fiberglass window screen to keep mine from getting sucked under, as well as duckweed. Probably not the most natural looking either but it does the job. I also use diy plastic water diverters on the hob filters made from water bottles to divert water downwards. These are shown in one of my most recent tank tour videos, not sure which one exactly. Hope this helps.
yes you need a license to buy this in Canberra where I am. Very invasive.
Not to keep it or buy it though , the permit is just to sell it
My Mystery snails ate the Frogbit I put in within days.
Bummer!
Would a tank completely covered with Frogbit prevent fish from jumping out of the tank? (keeping it uncovered)
It would certainly discourage fish from jumping, not sure it would prevent them from jumping completely though
I see that you are not using a sponge filter. Are they really not needed? I find that they are unsightly and take up a lot of tank space. So a HOB set to a low flow is all that is needed? Is this enough surface agitation for fish to breathe? Thank you. You very nice aquariums.
My sentiments exactly on sponge filters. It really doesn’t matter what kind of filter you use. If the tank has low bio load, plants and is well established with beneficial bacteria, you don’t necessarily even need a filter. I have several tanks and even a pond with goldfish that have no filter at all. But they are well balanced and setup in a way where they don’t need it. I’m starting to not like HOBs as much because they take up rim space (which can be used for more plants!), but they work just fine. Surface agitation is not necessarily needed if the tank conditions are as described above, the key I think is not have the surface completely covered like with floating plants which allows for gas exchange, and remember that in addition to gas exchange at the water surface the aquarium plants are also producing oxygen with enough light. Glad you enjoyed the video!
very nice, i was thinking of getting some to my nano tank. but the problem is that i don't have strong light, could it stay healthy in such tank?
It grows best with medium to high light. What kind of light do you have?
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Can frogbit be used in an outdoor 85 gallon pond like water hynicinth?
Yes I grow mine in ponds also during summer , but it doesn’t like cold weather so it will start fading in the fall.
Can the long roots going down be trimmed??
Yes, but you can also take out the older plants with longer roots and leave the baby plants with short roots
Hi 👋 what’s the best fertiliser for your plants 😊
Here’s the primary way I fertilize
DIY Pond Plant Fertilizer Root Tabs #pondplants #minipond #diy #plantedtank
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I Also use Aquarium co op easy green
Do you have any tips for keeping redroot floaters alive? I had five, then all of them died expect for one. So I moved the last one into a Father Fish Resurrection jar under a house plant grow light.
Red root floaters need lots of nutrients in the water. That’s what I’m experiencing.
@@plantlifeproject thank you so much. I bet this was my problem.
🙏😎
I put an Amazon frogbit in the newly set up aquarium and illuminated it for 10 hours a day. but the plant's leaves turned yellow and some became covered with brown spots and died. How can I stop this situation? There are 15 neon tetras in my tank and the tank is 45 liters.
It sounds like it’s not getting enough nitrogen and possibly other nutrients. You may need to add fertilizer but test the water first. And 10 hrs may be too much light,depending on what other plants you are growing in the tank. 6-8 hours is usually plenty for frogbit.
These are great for reducing algae. Annoyingly though, tetras eat the roots.
What kind of tetras do you have?
Diamond tetras
My Amazon frog-bit plants are even more healthier than yours... And more greenish coloured too
I'm proud of that ✊