VoodooJackal
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Has anyone had any experience using water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) in an aquarium setup. Are they newt safe?
The Hyacinths slowly died off, they just didn't like the led lights. I suspect it was the radiant heat from the old fluorescent bulbs that they couldn't do without, also, I have cooling fans running almost permanently in the summer, so maybe they were chilled by those.
Water lettuce, Amazon frogbit and Duckweed are all doing well enough though, so at least I have some floating plants in there.
Sorry for the slow reply, I've been away for a few days.![]()
I've been growing these indoors for nearly 4 years now in all my aquatic/semi aquatic tanks.
They do like plenty of light but mine have been fine with a single growlux tube and still grow at temps down to 60F. The only thing they don't do is flower but they reproduce with runners so quickly i end up giving them away!
Once they get established they make a nice floating mat for newts to haul out on and most of them sleep in the root system just below the surface.