Stem Plants
Water Sprite
Ceratopteris thalictroides
Photo: Show_ryu · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature20–28 °C
- pH6–7.5
- Adult size50 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Origin
- Tropical regions around the world
- Size
- 20 – 50 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: A fern with finely divided leaves, also known as water sprite. It can be planted or left to float. It produces new plants along the edges of its leaves.
