Water Sprite: Aquatic Plants for Goldfish

Water Sprite, Indian Water Fern

Ceratopteris thalictroids

Region: Water sprites grow all over the world in tropical regions.

Habitat: You can find water sprite growing in swamps, marshes, ponds in the shallows along the banks of rivers.

Water: The water sprite will thrive in waters with temperatures between 71 to 82 degrees, with a pH of slightly acidic to slightly alkaline and a sort to hard water hardness.

Lighting: For water sprites to grow to their fullest, they need bright light.

Height: The maximum height of a water sprite is around 16 inches.

Growing: Water Sprite is a very fast growing aquatic plant that can be rooted in a gravel substrate, or free floating in your goldfish tank. Wether it is rooted or free floating, it grows best in calm, slow moving waters. With it’s rapid rate of growth, water sprite will quickly fill a goldfish aquarium and require a goldfish tank owner to preform routine trimming or removal of new plantlets.

Propagation: Water sprites will send out plantlets that will break free from the parent plant or sprout up from it’s roots.

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