African Water Fern: Aquatic Plants for Goldfish

African Water Fern

Bolbitis heudelotii

Region: The African Water Fern is from Africa

Habitat: It is found on the sandy or rocky bottoms of steady moving rivers and streams.

Water: African Water Ferns thrive in waters of 65-77 degree with a neutral pH and moderately soft water hardness.

Lighting: They prefer low to moderate light conditions

Height: The African Water Fern can grow up to 20 inches

Growing: A requirement to its success is to place your African Water Ferns next to the outflow of your filter or in an area that will replicate its natural growing conditions of moving water. Attach it to a piece of driftwood or rock as you would the Java Fern.

Propagation: In ideal conditions, shoots will grow from rhizomes or on occasion, baby plants can form on the leaf tips of the parent plant.

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