Elodea in the aquarium

Even if you just started your journey as an aquarist, you probably already know a water plant like Elodea. Its popularity has earned the élodea due to its low cost, high growth rate and quite attractive appearance. Moreover, this plant is unpretentious and can become an excellent shelter for small fish.

What does the Elodea look like?

Elodea (Elodea Canadian) is a long-living plant with long fleshy stems on which rosettes are located small, bright green lanceolate leaves that darken and coarsen with age. Due to its unpretentiousness, the elodea can grow to frightening dimensions, up to 3 meters! Stimulates plant growth with intensive lighting, so if you want to grow a green monster in your own aquarium, choose a bright light, but make sure that the water does not bloom. Growing to the surface of the water, the stems of the Elodea do not stop, but continue to increase in size, quietly floating near the edge.

Elodea plant - benefit in the aquarium

Even excluding the interesting appearance and unpretentiousness of this plant, the reasons for making the elodey part of your home aquarium still exist. Firstly, as we noticed earlier, thick rosettes of plant leaves serve as an excellent refuge for small fishes. Secondly, Elodea is an excellent filter that can purify water from harmful impurities. By the way, taking into account the last factor, do not put the river élodea in the aquarium home, because she could easily accumulate heavy metals and other unfavorable compounds that can harm your pets. Thirdly, the leaves of this plant perfectly photosynthetic (hence the love of strong lighting), and therefore saturate the water with oxygen. And, finally, fourthly, Elodea - a perfect food for many fish, and the grown stems of plants are not often fed even to mammals, they are extremely useful.

What should be feared when planting a Canadian Elodie in an aquarium is her poisonous juices. If you are planning to multiply the plant , and want to cut off the sheet from it, do this by first taking the elodey from the aquarium. Do not worry, a short period of drought will not affect the plant itself, but it will save fish and other inhabitants of the aquarium from intoxication, and their offspring and young animals - from death.