Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Aquatic Staghorn Fern
Ceratopteris cornuta
Photo: Carlosar · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature20–28 °C
- pH6–7.5
- Adult size40 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Origin
- Tropical Africa and Asia
- Size
- 20 – 40 cm
- Temperature
- 20 – 28°C
- pH
- 6.0 – 7.5
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- CO2
- Not required
- Fertilization
- average
- Growth
- fast
- Position
- bottom-dwelling or free-swimming
- Propagation
- seedlings on the leaves
Notes: Related to the water fern but with wider leaves. When floating, it forms large rosettes that provide shade.
