Why Floating Plants Are BAD For Your Aquarium

Although floating plants can be a major benefit to an aquarium by providing shade for fish and reducing nitrates and phosphates which helps reduce and prevent algae there are also negative issues stemming from adding floating plants.

The biggest problem with floating plants is that they can out compete other aquarium plants, especially ones deeper in your aquarium. They do this in two ways. Floating plants suck out nutrients really quickly and so can starve other aquarium plants but also they will cover the surface of the aquarium and can prevent enough light reaching the other aquarium plants.

Smaller aquarium floating plants like duckweed can cause issues by clogging up filters and larger floaters can reduce flow across the aquarium with long roots. Covering the surface can also cause issues with reducing oxygen in the water due to a smaller surface area for gas exchange.

Even though we add floating plants to help alleviate problems with too much nuisance algae this can cause a issue later on due to there not being enough food for algae eating fish in the aquarium so additional feeding may be required.

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