The only plants not thriving are my floating amazon frogbit plants which I have struggled to make more of and I only have 9 - 11 of them even though in the beginning I used to have more of them. Frogbit Planting Instructions: Plant the frogbit by gently dropping it onto the surface of the aquarium or pond where you want to grow it. Amazon frogbit is a floating plant. A healthy, well grown frogbit should quickly start to generate runners. Frogbit looks similar to spongeplant (Limnobium spongia) which is also prohibited matter but not yet known to occur in Australia. Minor roots are 1 mm thick and up to 10 cm long and they grow slowly from the major root. Navsharma94: Can i grow more frogbit from only one amazon ftogbit. It can be kept in tropical and moderately warm tanks at temperature from 20 to 30 °C. The leaves don't really melt the way my other plants' do, they kinda looked munched on actually. Leaves are green and healthy just hardly any roots. So, I made a ring out of airline tubing using a hot glue gun , and I clipped one end of the loop to an airline holder to keep it in place. I keep frogbit in a 40gallon hex. Fishfur: Sure can. Maintain a water temperature between 64 and 86 degrees F. Maintain a water pH level between 6.0 and 8.0. How fast does Frogbit multiply? Amazon frogbit is comparatively undemanding in terms of temperature conditions. It is also known as the South America sponge plant because it has sponge-like leaves. 20g has cfl lights on it and the 75g has planted plus led lights. Similar species. 2.6wpg of CFL High Output with DiY Co2 and twice a week Flourish Comprehensive. I have 20g long that has a nice batch of amazon frogbit in it and all the roots are nice and growing long. Mabye its those? Just one plant, even if it has only two or three tiny leaves, can eventually become hundreds of plants. Keep the water current gentle in the pond or aquarium. In fact, for the Shy Guys tank, I wanted the frogbit to provide shade for the slow-growing anubias, but not cover up my fast-growing background plants. Frogbit is a floating freshwater plant from Central and South America. Plants can form into large mats of … If I fall off the fertilizer wagon, and skip dosing for too long, my frogbit will die back. "Frogbit, or Amazon frogbit, is native to Central and South America and it is illegal to have or move the plant in NSW as it poses a serious biosecurity risk and must not be kept or sold here," Ms Dixon said. This is a video of my aquarium that I uploaded on youtube It has been kept and traded for use in fish ponds, aquariums and water features. It grows like crazy and could cover my surface in 3 weeks if I let it. This plant can grow up to 20 inches and the minimum tank capacity for this plant is at least 10 gallon. It can rapidly invade and smother waterways and is a serious biosecurity threat. 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