Guppy Grass

Species: Najas Guadalupensis
Origin: South America
Type: Floating, Rooted
Ease of Care: Very Easy
Light: Low to High

Guppy Grass is a renowned plant to use when breeding fish or shrimp.  It grows quickly and easily and gives fry and baby shrimp great places to hide.  Guppy grass is very undemanding and easy to take care of.  The branches are easy to break and then use to create another plant.  This plant can be either planted in the substrate or left to float.  If left to float, roots will start to sprout and move towards the substrate.

I have never had this but this picture does not represent what I was thinking of as guppy grass lol. Does anybody use this?

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This isn't a very good photo, but this is what mine looks like.....





Dennis

I didn't think the one shown was good either... ...so I swiped yours...hehe...

Guppy grass. Good stuff. Used it for years.

It's a pretty plant.  I can't have anything like that in my tanks.  I'd suck it up during WC and it would clog my pump.  The fish look very happy swimming in and out of it.

Around here it servers a multitude of purposes.  It's good at keeping the water clean & pure.  Goldfish, turtles, and crayfish find it very tasty.  Of course everyone knows it's use as a hiding place for fry.  It also hosts a bevy of micro-fauna for fry to feed on.

Dennis

I put a few starts of Guppy Grass in a 2.5g tank, dropped in about 8-10 cherry shrimp and 1 endler and just left it with a lower watt cfl bulb shining on it most of the day and the GG grew and propagated like crazy and the shrimp did to.  Endler guy had lots of fresh food!  I'd drop in a few large flakes of food on the surface about every other day and the shrimps would swim up to attach to it and eat.  It was a fun little project.

I have some in a couple 10's and a 2 1/2 with fry.....you're absolutely correct...fry feed off the micro-organisms in it .....neat stuff....

So this can be a floatiing plant?  Does it tollerate water temps from 82 to 83? 

Quote from: LizStreithorst on October 29, 2012, 10:52:35 PM
So this can be a floatiing plant?  Does it tollerate water temps from 82 to 83?

Yes, it's a floater, mostly used for fry refruge to fry and to provide a source for tiny food. Mine tolerates 80-82 just fine...

..just an update......we've been planting in the gravel to anchor it....still grows like crazy, and great looking too....very green..

LOL watched that old video above.....  That was when I had the blower running the fish room.  It's in the attic above the garrage, but you can still hear it whine.....

Dennis

Quote from: BallAquatics on May 12, 2014, 06:29:13 PM
LOL watched that old video above.....  That was when I had the blower running the fish room.  It's in the attic above the garrage, but you can still hear it whine.....

Dennis

LOL...blowers are loud aren't they....but they give ya lotsa air

Yep lots of air.....  I have heard, (no pun intended), that the newer models are quieter.

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Dennis