Salvinia Minima Care & Growth Benefits

Aquarium Salvinia Minima Floating Plant Care. This plant is an extremely easy floating plant to care for. I have a couple important variables when it comes to this plant thriving in a fish tank.

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Steps to Salvinia Minima Care:

1. Eliminate current on aquarium water surface.
2. Raise aquarium light 4-7 inches above tank.
3. Use an aquarium light around the 6000k spectrum.
4. Dose aquarium water with liquid fertilizer.

Once you get this aquarium plant to grow well for you, it will yield tons of plants. It is very invasive and grows rapidly.

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Opinions on colorful centerpiece fish. Prefer something that isn't too small but not too large (4-6" would be nice) as it's a 55 gallon. Must get along with black skirts, and rams. Does not need to be schooling, and might even be better if it could be the only of its species. I'm trying to have a good selection of fish. Was going to go angels but with the 1"/gallon rule, needing at least 3 would fill things up fast. Tank is all natural, eucalyptus root and lots of rooted plants.

So weird question again (pls remember i’m very very new pls be nice) I have two tanks (10 and 20 long) and I have different creatures in each. I’ve been studying the nitrogen cycle and am testing it regularly but something happened to my 10 gal overnight. my 20 long has amazing levels on everything, but my 10 is really high in Nitrite… any idea why? there’s less fish in the 10 (obviously) just 3 ADFs, 1 otocinculus, and a few guppy fry in the net. both tanks get changed at the same times with the same stuff… the filter cartridge in the 10 was almost not visible through some brown sludge (maybe algae?) so I rinsed SOME off, I wanted to be sure to keep a lot of the bacteria in there… could that be it?

I had a bacterial bloom when I did a water change and rinsed the filter media... I believe I lost my good bacteria. I'm crossing my fingers and constantly checking my fish to make sure they survive. I've never been so worried.... That might have happened to you too.

Always clean sponges or filter stuff in the aquarium water u have taken out cuz it is the same temp as the tank and same water the bacteria is used to. Then you wont kill the bacteria with chemicals the water company put in to sterilize the water for us to drink such as Chlorine and chloramine. You have basicly had a crash or half a crash lets hope all animals are safe and sorts put soon. Just do 10% water changes daily i say and hopefully be less issues.

The beneficial bacteria is 2 sets of bacteria. Ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers. If you have high nitrites it means your cycle is not complete yet and your nitrite oxidizers are still expanding. The nitrogen cycle takes 4-6 weeks on average. However since you have fish is you either have to detoxify the nitrites with prime or do a water change if it’s very night and also dose with prime. Depends on how high is your nitrites.

So for the past 3 months I’ve had neon tetra and a bristles nose live peacefully, The other day I bought 3 new bristles noses and over night all bristle noses died including the bristle nose I had had in there for awhile, anyone know would could be happening? I’m very hesitant to put more fish in the tank now.

Had to set up a new tank for the unforseen babies we had. (I took on my sons fish and they never had babies, of course I have them for a month and BAM babies) Anyway, just tested the water in the baby tank and it's perfect. So excited, was extremely worried since the big tank had a spike in Nitrites and we are still working on that, tested it again today and it's almost ready to add new fish. So many exciting fish things going on in my house.

I see posts of water tests with vials. My husband bought the supplies for our set up and he uses these strips you just dip in the tank. I’m assuming that since most everyone here seems to use the vials, they are better. Can someone please help me understand the differences?

There are drawback and benefits to both. With the liquid: I can test only for what I need to check, for some it can be easier to read the results. However they are a bit more involved, and you have to be exact with everything.

With the strips, it's simple one step tests for everything; however you have to be careful of how and where you store them, the tiniest amount of moisture gets on those strips and they can be ruined, touching those tests pads can throw off your results, and if you don't read it quick enough those colors can fade/change.

[KaydenKochanski]

i’m 14 and i’m doing my tank tmrw im really excited and thank you this vid actually really helped

[CosmeGamerXD]

dude... my salvinia and lettuce was struggling to stay alive in my main tank but i saw that my two betta tanks were amazing, those had low water movement becausa of the bettas and the main was on FULL speed with backpack filter, this video saved me

[alberto]

I literally went kayaking and found this plant in my scopper holes and decided to take some home with me for my planted tank.. it's doing great!

[ADHDAquatics]

Your shirt you sell is so soft lol 😂 I wore it the other day in a video too. I love this plant BTW

[mikefisher]

i’ve been subscribed to you for a few years now I just kind of fell into water spangles I ordered frog bit and water spangles came as a mystery plant I love it because it looks like cats tongue That’s another one of the plants I wanted before I got water spangles and I might still get it eventually💯🌱🐠💙🔥

[Whitewing]

I have duck weed in my tank with a hang on the back filter and it does great. Probably in part due to the val reaching to the top of the tank kind of holds it in place.

[katbtrx]

I have a question about introducing new salvinia (and other floaters) to an established tank. I once bought water hyacinth and duckweed from a local seller and put it in quarantine. Glad I did because there were SO MANY planaria! How do I disinfect my floating plants without killing them? I’ve tried bleach and hydrogen peroxide on new plants (not just floaters), each with mixed results. Currently testing alum which I’ve heard is effective without harming the plants. Any advice on this is welcome!

[RampartPh]

duckweeds, frogbits, mini water lettuce, and red roots all died on me because of rookie mistakes. hopefully, the salvinias i'm going to purchase would be more sturdy for me.

[SwatejK]

Do you use a dehumidifier..? With all the tanks how do you handle moisture

[saintmaxmedia]

Hi, thank you for the video. Do you know the difference between giant duck weed and salvania? what is the best floating plant to feed to animals? Eva

[carolebraswell]

Oh my gosh! Thank you so much! I have failed with floating plants lately and you just explained why! I greatly appreciate it!!!

[TEAMRamey]

Thanks for the video. I’m glad you also mentioned water Lettuce. I’ve wanted to bring it indoors after summer pond season. Any more tips would be appreciated.

[angiebear]

I have a cat (Jinx) who loves my aquariums and houseplants. An idea would be plants that are safe around our feline aquarium enthusiasts. Would love a video like that.
Trying salvinia for the first time. Love the look of it and so far it’s growing really well. Thanks for the tips❤

[memyselfandi]

My new project eh?! lol so i just moved to east texas, and just got going a 1485 gallon swimming pool turned pond for a massive mutt guppy pond! super stoked. today our frogbit, hornwort, and guppy grass showed up, and they came with a hitch hiker, which was Water Spangles! im excited as were still building up on plants. lol so far we have 21 guppies in there, but already seeing some fry. im excited to see how many guppies will breed in a 1500g pond over a summer! hahaha gonna pick out the lookers in october and breed them indoors. needless to say i ended up heree over the water spangles lol

[ecdeluca]

This seems like the perfect plant for an axlotl tank because of the low flow needs of the plant and also it would block out a lot of the light. But I'm wondering if the fertilizers needed for the plant would mess up the ph needs of the axlotl. Any thoughts??

[roger]

I’ve always heard how salvina minima doesn’t like water flow or movement but I have 3 aquarium with hob filters and a stock tank with sponge filters and a lot of movement full of them and they’re somehow growing rapidly. Could there be a reason why mine are thriving? Very informative videos 👍🏽

[JoJo_devil]

My salvinia has some white mold / white stuff on it not sure why

[patricahall]

What's your take on using gravel and sand from the river as a substrate?

[aritoga]

ok i have low light and i need a floating plant ... what should i get ?

[GlasgowBandit]

Just finished my 43 Gallon got my live plants bedded in have them on a red led and blue led throughout the day and 2 Electric blue acara and some Large Tetras