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Aquarium Plants

Aquarium Plants: Profiles, Placement, and Growing Guides

Choose plants whose light, carbon, substrate, and growth habits fit the aquarium.

Aquarium plants differ in growth form as much as they differ in appearance. A rooted rosette, a stem plant, a floating plant, and a rhizome plant use space and nutrients differently, so placement begins with growth habit and maintenance access before color or leaf shape.

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African water fern

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