Water Sprite

Water Sprite
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Water wisteria question
by oleg-at-netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev) (Tue, 28 Jun 1994)
Water wisteria question
by eethomp-at-welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Elaine Thompson) (1 Jul 1994)
Re:Ceratopteris thalictroides ...

Water Sprite
Scientific Name: Ceratopteris cornuta
Family: Ceratopteridaceae
About the Water Sprite
Species Type: Freshwater Plants
Category: Floating ...

The Water Sprite is a beautiful fern that will grow great in well-fertilized aquariums and produce beautiful green leaves!
Water Sprite Contents
Distribution:
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Water Sprite, Indian Fern

Age of Aquariums Aquarium Plants Water Sprite - Ceratopteris thalictroides ...

Water Sprite
Water Sprite
By Clint Norwood
Scientific Name: Ceratopteris Species ...

Note: A floating fern, Water Sprite can quickly cover the surface with new growth. This plant has many feathery roots that make excellent hiding for fry. Some varieties can be planted in the substrate.
Fish Books ...

Water sprite is a one of the easiest plants to keep and there are cases where some people have all their plants dying but water sprites are thriving.

Water Sprite - Ceratopteris pteridoides - can be grown totally submerged, where it almost resembles celery, or floating, where its leaves look a bit fuller, perhaps like oak leaves, or emerged, where its leaves are thinner and more branhy.

Water Sprite
Keeping even the hardiest of plants looking their best can be difficult in a brackish aquarium. The water movement preferred by brackish fish is not a plus for plants.

Water Sprite Ceratopteris thalictroides If I could only have one plant for my tanks it would be water sprite. This is an amazingly versatile plant that can be grown as a floating or rooted plant.

The water sprite produces long trailing roots along with wide-spreading fronds that will provide your fry with places to hide. This plant grows rapidly and sends out daughter plantlets on its fronds.

Vesicularia dubyana (Java Moss), Ceratopteris (Water Sprite) and Microsorium (Polypodium pteropus or Java Fern) are all compatible live aquatic plants.

Some of these include Java fern, Anubias, Cryptocoryne species, water sprite and Java moss. Some of these plants, notably Cryptocorynes, actually prefer lower light.

The plant help crew also includes fast growing (i.e., rapid nutrient absorbing) plants such as many stem plants which may be either rooted or floating, and water sprite (really a rosette plant but also either rooted or floating), ...

The author conducted an experiment and got 6 quarter sized Angelfish from a large tank of like sized Angels and put them in a 10 gallon tank with a sponge filter and Water Sprite.

Over the next few days, he spent most of his time sulking in a flowerpot or hanging in the Water Sprite near the surface. After four or five days, he was eating normally with the other adults, and I saw no fry. I assumed that he had eaten the eggs.

"I have a ten gallon tank with a small power filter. I have six small water sprite growing, and one penny wort. Considering the live plants, will guppies or swordtails eat the plants? Thank you for your time," ...

Cryptocoryne (Cryptocoryne wendtii)
Dwarf Sagittaria (Sagittaria subulata)
Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus)
Madagascar Lace (Aponogeton madagascariensis)
Water Primrose or Ludwigia (Ludwigia repens)
Water Sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides) ...

Pulcher) 2 Ottos (Otocinclus affinus) 5 Black Skirt Tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi) 2 Java Ferns (Microsorium pteropus) on pillar rock 1 crypt (Cryptocoryne wendtii) 3 crypt (Cryptocoryne Affiniss) (one orginal split into 3) 1 water sprite ...

It eats any standard aquarium fare, but should have a high degree of vegetable matter in its diet. Put in some floating plants such as hornwort or water sprite, and one day you will most probably find baby platies hiding amongst the plants.

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