What Floating Plants Do You Guys Use To Keep Bettas Happy?

[hollyp0p]

Since IAL have caused me nothing but woe, but after using I realise Odin loves the cover they provide I'd like to get some surface floating plants.....what do you guys use and/or recommend?

 

[shaz3271]

amazon frogbit

 

[Kaz1814]

I use duckweed.. Cost effective because it spreads like a rash!!! i started off with it in one tank its now in 12! LOL

 

[5teady_2012]

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I use this as well as i go them off shaz lol

 

[Shrimper]

I have some duckweed... I didn't buy it on purpose I got 1 "free" leaf with some plants and now i've got loads! My Betta likes it.

Also thought its not really a floating plant, he also likes sitting in the vallis that stretches up to and across the surface.

 

[blue_betta]

i love duckweed, but i cannot find it ANYWHERE around here! even sources ive prevoisly used have seemed to dry up. i think the dry summer of 2006 killed it all off around here. i havent seen any localy for the past 2 years =/

i have a plant that i do not know the name of but i think its a hygrophillia of some sort. it does root down but seems to prefer to float. it fern-like and sprawls out along the surface, under the surface and even into the air, and has a large mass of dangling roots. it grows very very fast and propagates its self by breaking appart old leaves and these float about at the surfave and regenerate into seperate plants. gets a bit invasive but its awsome

 

[blue_betta]

here it iss

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[Amunet]

I would love to get some of that frogbit! Looks great! And I'm sure my males would love something to blow a nest up under.

I used cambomba and uhm... some other kind to float. Can't remember what the other one is called to save my life..... It's some kind of stem plant *shrugs*
My Raj loved laying on the roots of that one and when he got ill, he really liked the cambomba to lay on at the surface.

 

[modaz]

riccia is perfect and this is all i use for them, they build in it, rearrange it and generally have a lot of stimulation from it being in their tank

 

[hollyp0p]

excellent thanks for all replies on this one!

 

[constantine03]

I have horn wort in mine..

 

[monica]

Elodea is great!

 

[joycould]

In the various tanks and bowls I have frogbit, hornwort, duckweed, red root floater and salvinia oblongifolia. I have found the red rooted floater does best with some water movement.

 

[happyannie]

I've had great experiences with Riccia although I've found it a bit hard to get ahold of. I finally bought some from a grower online. Little Chen just loved it and made some artful bubblenests in it. The stuff spreads too with good lighting.
Good luck!

 

[andy_j]

i love duckweed, but i cannot find it ANYWHERE around here! even sources ive prevoisly used have seemed to dry up. i think the dry summer of 2006 killed it all off around here. i havent seen any localy for the past 2 years =/

Would you like me to send you some...pm me your address and i'll pop a load in the post for you.

Andy