Big Floating Heart: Freshwater Plant

By Shannon Frye, published Oct 01, 2007
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If you are looking for a plant to place in your freshwater tank than the Big Floating Heart might be a good choice for you. It looks like it has heart shaped leaves and the roots look like a pile of tangled up bananas. It's also known as the Banana Plant for this very reason. This plant is very easy to take care of and you wont have a problem keeping the plant alive. Like most other freshwater plants, this plant only comes in varieties of green. It also requires a decent amount of light so if you want to purchase a replacement bulb for your light you can go ahead and do so.

You can keep this plant anywhere from 70 to 80 degrees. You will want to hook up a heater to your tank to make sure that the water doesn't drop below 70 degrees. This plant is actually one of the best plant to have because it's one of the hardiest plants that you can purchase for your freshwater aquarium. This plant will be fine in a tank that doesn't have a very good lighting system. It's also one of the cheapest freshwater plants that you can purchase for your aquarium. You will only pay a couple of dollars for one of these plants.

Plants are great to keep in your aquarium because they are a cheap way of keeping your water quality up to par and they provide a lot of different hiding places for your fish. It also adds a lot of decoration to your fish tank and it makes your fish tank look a lot more natural and realistic. You will want to make sure that none of your fish will munch on the leaves of your plants in your freshwater fish tank.

With this plant, you can flip over one of the leaves and plant it in the substrate to form another plant. This plant will quickly spread through your aquarium. If you want add more Big Floating Heart plants to your aquarium you will not have to purchase any because the plant will have about three or four leaves on it to begin with. Once the leaves are big, you can flip the leave over and plant it in the substrate to form another plant for your freshwater tank. A couple of dollars will then turn into a tankful of Banana Plants!

Did You Know?
The Big Floating Heart has heart shaped leaves and banana looking roots.
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