One of modern alternatives to usual aquarian plants are new photosynthesizing creations of the nature which, stately drifting on an aquarium, are capable to do without rooting in a certain place.
Plants without soil: reality or imagination?
If the owner of an aquarium is not especially inclined to constant cleaning of the habitat of the wards, then usually it gets the house for small fishes without primer, and it means that practically everything will be in a floating state. Respectively, even snails who are used for clarification of walls of an aquarium will is lazy to creep on walls … and to plants as there are versions capable without effort to survive even in the absence of the earth for strengthening! Especially striking examples of similar of "water travelers" – a peristolistnik usual, elodeya African, a rogolistnik and a richchiya. The last, by the way, has property without due leaving and weekly thinning to expand to the lawn sizes with a moss so behind this plant an eye yes scissors for a hairstyle will be necessary.
As there is a reproduction without soil
There are two ways of reproduction of plants in an aquarium without soil: 1. By means of emergence on a body of a plant of the affiliated shoot which is formed by means of budding, emergence of new escapes, a branching of "moustache" – so-called vegetative. At this way after the education of affiliated plants got "child" replace to other part of an aquarium that the expanded plant did not occupy by itself all top thickness of water, having blocked fishes oxygen and light.
2. Sheet reproduction. In this case on leaves new escapes already with a rhizome which separate from the parent subsequently are formed, going to independent drift on an aquarium. It is only necessary to cut a top that a plant, gradually increasing in sizes, did not get under influence of direct beams of the sun, pernicious for it.
It is curious that not each aquarian plant is capable to breed rather often – everything depends only on intensity of nutrient medium. If, for example, to feed up a rogolistnik multivitamin solution, then it will accelerate the period of blossoming and affiliated formations will be almost twice more, than at usual blossoming! However it is only possible to resort to so radical methods in case the aquarium was recently bought and it is necessary to create a layer of plants urgently.
Floating plants can serve not only an excellent alternative as usual soil, but also allow small fishes to postpone berries directly to such drifting "island of greens" - thanks to the fact that plants constantly are in the movement other fishes seldom seek to destroy berries of the neighbors.