floating plants

FASTRAKR · Feb 9, 2003

When we picked up our 3 otto's the other day from our LFS there was a bunch of small floating flowers in the bag. We thought they looked kind of cool so we added these to the tank. Can anybody tell us what the are and how they "reproduce".

Thanks FASTRAKR

125gJoe · Feb 9, 2003

Any pics?

FASTRAKR · Feb 9, 2003

No pics yet, I need to steal my sister's new digital camera. I'll hopefully have some pics in the next week or so.

The plants are very small, maybe 3/16" across. 5 petals. Seems to be something hanging down from the about a 1/16 of an inch. They look to be white or a very light green in colour.

djlen · Feb 9, 2003

My guess is that it's Duckweed if it's green. Are they flowers or petals?
Len

FASTRAKR · Feb 9, 2003

Just took them to normal lighting, they are green. Still can't tell if they are flowers or petals.

Skittyfish · Feb 9, 2003

Could it be new watersprite? My look like that when leaves break off and grow roots. They float around the top, and look kind of white.

superstein61 · Feb 9, 2003

take a look at the pics here and see what it looks like:

http://www.bettastarz.com/plants.htm

I have some better plant pic links, but can't find them right now

FASTRAKR · Feb 9, 2003

Thanks superstein61,
That site was great. Looks like we have duckweed.

Thanks everybody,

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