One more pump. One more light. One more fish. Always a 1 more in this hobby lol

I've been growing frogbit in my 5 gallon for about a year, and if you let them grow roots all the way down into some root tabs they will start growing MASSIVE leaves. I've even got a bloom! The roots are so strong that they support the plant during water changes. Pretty neat. If you want to do this, beware that they will take over your tank if you let them.

I love your clear, good pace of talking, and up lifting spirit! Also very organized.

That airline tubing ring trick is the smartest thing I’ve ever seen, I just got some frogbit and this video was so helpful

I bought three plants at my LFS and as of six months later, I have literally hundreds of them. I have sold some, given some away, but mostly I throw a lot out. My plants grow to about 4 or 5 inches in diameter and I love the roots. Your airline idea is brilliant! Something else I found was that yes it makes great hiding space for Fry but to add to that, if you use a powder Fry food, the fine bristles on the roots especially higher up, holds food from falling and the Fry can graze in relative safety. This stuff soaks up Nitrogen like a starving person at a buffet! I hate throwing plants away, I really do, but this is such an amazing plant I just steel myself to doing so. Has anyone had it flower? I haven't yet.

I guess the in thing are LED lights, but prior to switching, I had a double T-5 florescents and I couldn't stop these floating plants(duck weeds, water sprites, mini water lettuce) from growing and their roots reaching out to the gravel. Love your enthusiasm. Keep up the good work and video making.

I’m going to have to try that hot glued ring idea! Also I just replaced the light last weekend on the betta tank to a Fluval 3.0 Nano. I really like it!

You have been a huge help with my first plated tank and recently I added my first two fish. We are doing all fine.

I love this stuff, I bought it on Amazon along with water spangles. Both of them survived shipping to ARIZONA, it was like 100 degrees that day too. I put them in the tank then left on a trip for just 4 days, it had already started multiplying by that time and one of the roots was about 8 inches long. Long story short, this stuff and water spangles are basically invincible and grow really fast. I’m just using liquid fertilizer right now, the one by API.

I've had Frogbits in shades and they're growing spectacularly well.

Whoo hoo! 10K! You deserve it, and many more. As always, great intro video, packed with helpful info.

I'm so glad you continue to do these, thanks!!

I like your comment about the Frogbit being a pain when it comes to cleaning the tanks. I asked the same question on a UK planted tank forum and almost everyone removed the Frogbit and other floating plants before cleaning their tanks and then replaced them once they'd finished.

Irene is so inspirational ... thank you Irene!

I love your airline tubing idea!

Love the video, Clears explanations. Keep up good the good work.

Congrats on 10K subs, well deserved. I was hooked after watching your video on alum/bleach/copper treatment for snail control, very thorough and scientific.

Love this video! And congrats on 10K!! You deserve it! 🎉

AWESOME VIDEO -- so well done!!!

Thanks for the airline tubing tip, I've been trying to think of a way to contain my frogbit since it always collects near the filter flow! Congrats on 10k!

I just changed out some ( floating)water wisteria that I consistently trim off the planted mother plant in my 45 gallon glass topped community tank, ( that also grows so well as a floater ) to frog bit. I used the circular airline tube in a quiet corner, and the roots are coming along great. They look like some type of ‘war of the worlds’ alien invasion. The dwarf gourami loves hiding and resting out under it. You answered all my questions, especially how to water change with it. Thanks,!!!

really enjoy your videos straight to the point and clear presentations!

Congrats on the 10k. It has been great watching your channel grow. Also I have used almost the same technique on the air line floats. I just use it backwards. I use it to keep the center open. Great video!!

OMG!!! Thank you!!! I was so worried about my frog bit!! Your video is so helpful.

Great video! Now a new floating plant to try out in my tanks!

Just what I was looking for

I love frogbit! This is a great video!

Frogbit is my favourite floating plant.

I love your info and editing methods.

Ooo love the airline ring idea!

10K WOW congrats lovely! You truly are an absolute delight to listen to and your video editing is amazing. Maybe you can do some tutorials on how you edit your videos? I know if there is anyone who could make this easy for newbies it would be you. You are an inspiration to us all!

Thank you for this! I am going to look at frogbit now!

Great review

You are so Great Irene. Love from Sweden.

im so happy you make all these videos! i learned so much! your mind is truly one to mentor many! :D

Thank you so much for this helpful video!

Thank you for this! I always love your videos! I have some frogbit that's not growing as quickly as before, and I think I know why now. And you covered something I hoped you would, how to corral it!

Love your voice and great information.

Love your channel!

Thanks, this had some very useful information for me

loving your channel

I like the line that corrals the frog bits together.

The frogbit UFO is amazing

Thank you for the good content!

Great vid. Thanks.

Thanks for hints

Great information on frogbit. Great tip on containing it. Cobgratulations on 10K. You deserve every one of those subs, and may you get many many more. 👍💕👍

Very informative. Thanks for the upload. You just got one more subscriber!

Thanks for the tips!

Wow so cool! I noticed you have some crabs in your tank!

congrats on 12.9k subs! my LFS just gave me Frogbit to grow today. They want me to grow it lol. I think I'll do okay after finding your video! :)

Love frogbit, also help when you start a new tank. Love guppies too, I only keep the male.

0:15 Was the cutie biting on the frogbit's root? ^^ Thanks for the tips again. I was in awe over how the frogbits are growing so quickly in my place (I had it placed outdoors with sufficient sunlight most of the time). Btw, I notice that as of now, you have 39.1K subscribers already. Kudos and keep up the good work!

thank you very much i have had fish for 10 years but always used silk flowers did not want snails i got a larger tank now & your channel is allot help your alum dip and snails video is wanting me to try live plants maybe i can start out low tech plants .. always loved the floating plant great idea of containing to a certain area i think this frogbit will be one of my first plants glad to see you can use a glass lid with the frogbit ... i have to have a lid to keep my bristolnose pelco in

Thanks for this helpful video 🙏😄

I love your videos.

all of these are pros for me as I mainly want these for a sealed terrarium

Superior interesting video, my friend! Best wishes! big thumbs

This was the best video and so informative! Helped me out so much! Thank you!

So I tried your plastic bag trick when filling my planted axolotl tank and OHMYGOSH!! It worked so well!!! I've been looking for a good top coverage plant. My lotl tank is open top with multiple plant lights. How well do these do in cooler water?

Your advice on this post is super informative... i just made a airline tubing to contain frogbits.... i do really like this very informative tips and tricks about this... please upload more informative videos about this....

Amazing video. I have frog bit and water lettuce in the same tank.

Thanks for sharing! I have the same betta tank as you and my frogbit are dying at the same rate they are multiplying. It’s been frustrating. The lightning is good, tank is regularly maintained, levels are fine. Only thing I have not tried is the fertilizer. I’m going to try it out ASAP

Thanks for the video working with some red root floaters glad its not just me

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The air line loop on suction cups and detaching during water changes is a genius idea! I'm thinking of getting some frog bit and am afraid of accidentally flushing some or releasing it into the pond near me. But it's so great looking in the aquarium..... So you do not have any problems with the condensation dripping on the leaves huh? I too have glass lids like you and that is another reason why I haven't gotten this beautiful plant. What to do, what to do...

Please share your story on how you saved your red root floater. Also, thanks for the great tips will definitely come back when I try floating plants again. :)

Congratulations on the subscribers!. Great video! I just got some frogbit unfortunately it got shipped in very hot weather. I tried to get it to come back. But the seller had put a note in with it stating he would replace it if it died. I did get it from Amazon. While it was in my betta and shrimp tank they loved it! I will be getting more. And I going to use your tips. Thank you for doing this video. ❤☘🙂

Honestly you've got really great videos and they're super helpful. I tried using frogs bit and it pretty much died I realize that my light probably isn't strong enough for surface plants. My betta seem happy with their water dry caves and their anubias that's planted on top of it they seem to enjoy the larger environment for swimming. I really do wish I could create my tanks the way I see and your videos but truly I don't have the money and we just don't have the proper resources, for example I wish they sold the coop fertilizer in Taiwan died by in a heartbeat. The fertilizer that I have they instructed me in Chinese to give for drops every time I do a water change but it doesn't keep my anubias from turning yellow or getting odd colorations of brown and black. I found after I stopped using the plant food they seem to do better on their own. The Leafs get larger and sometimes off just clip off the ones that change color but as long as they say kind of small they seem to stay green and healthy. In fact I have a couple tanks were the anubias is just floating and my bettas seemed to enjoy resting up against it or resting in the leaves depending on how big it is but they seem comfortable. I guess you can say my tanks are sort of homemade with the resources that are available. For example we don't actually have lids that go on our glass aquariums. so I had to purchase large Critter keeper Lids to place on top of the tank. Another thing I'd like to do if I ever have time it's to paint the backdrops of my tanks so that way my tanks don't have stuff looking through it from behind? I saw this tip on a really cool website called the fish room with Rachel O'Leary and I thought it was a really cool idea. If you were to take a look at my room it consists of basically two tanks on my dressers that are made of plastic. three tanks on my desk which of course has a waterproof tablecloth on it and then I have a fish tank on my Ikea table of us to hold my DVD player and some other stuff. I have a large pink and white plastic box I have a couple of them and I put a beautiful tablecloth on it and that's where my other tank sits and my frog tank. I basically live in a room so the fact that I could even get a fish into this room is well a miracle of Jesus. to be honest when I first got into the hobby I never thought I'd have so many but they're actually kind of Addicting betta fish they're so beautiful. if you have an email I'd love to send you a picture of what my room looks like after I clear off some of the tables although I didn't decorate three of the tables where my betta has stuff to look at so that's actually good for them. actually now that I think about it probably my room is already set up pretty well and I don't actually need to paint the back of the fish tanks. please forgive me I know my messages are long I don't have any friends that are in the bettas so there's no one to talk to about different things. it might be kind of funny but I actually share that with God about different tank ideas. what I'd love to do is open a fish store where people could come and create their own tanks. but you got to have a lot of capital to do that and this I don't have yet but maybe someday

I just had one frogbit delivered. This starter is 50x larger than in your video. I was shocked on the size!!!!

Thanks you for this video where protien exacty in forgbit

Great video. The only problem I have with frogbit is keeping the pads dry. Every pad that gets too wet in my tank seems to melt away. Every day I manicure them and try to keep all the odd up out of the water. My water lettuce which grows like weeds helps with this. I can prop up the leaves against the water lettuce which as far as I can tell doesn’t care if it’s leaves get wet. Great vid

Congratulations 😊 Gem Mamaril Watching from Philippines

Gonna get some frogbit for a horticulture project I'm working on. Going to get some waterwheel plants which need companion plants to survive in horticulture.

love your videos

I love ur channel

Congrats!!

Just got some from Etsy!!

I recommend giant duckweed for nano tank like batta fish tank. The leaf size is not so big 1 - 2 cm and its roots don't extend so long but it absorbs excessive nutrition very well. And also It has reddish lower face very impressive. I've grew them, so nice!

You are the 1st on my favourite youtuber list😊 Helpful video! But what do you do with the frogbite when it gets out of control (too much)

This is a plant that has paid for itself 100 times over, for me. It is very hard to get floating plants in my area and I scored a couple little pots of this. It flourishes in all of my tanks and I can sell off portions regularly.

nice video

Great video. I currently have duckweed in my tanks for nitrate control along with pothos until I can source frogbit. I wanted to say that your article on the effects of floating plants and various types of filtration on O2 levels in tanks (Aquarium CoOps blog) was excellent. It would be interesting to know what percentage of floating plants on the surface of a tank is optimal for nitrate control (all other factors being equal) before O2 levels start to fall. I get nervous if more than 50% of the surface is covered. After reading your article I added a HOB filter back on one tank that currently only has a sponge filter and a lot of floating plants. Great job.

i made a ring for my floating plants as well but i didn't think about detaching the suction cup for water changes. i would always just remove all my plant. thanks for sharing!

I use a pond ring for mine and also sponge filters are nitrate factories its possible the more waste the sponge gets the more nitrates the plant will get as its conveyed to the or near the surface

Your frogbit looks a lot rounder than the amazon frogbit I have seen for sale. Where did you get it and was there any specific indicator of a specific strain or something?

I’ve been basically binging all your videos learning about everything!! Love your content. I was wondering though, I have this same betta tank you were showing with the all glass lid, the filter seems to put out a pretty strong water flow in mine but doesn’t look like your surface is moving at all. Did you turn it off? I’m putting some floating plants in my tank and am concerned it will be too strong of a flow for them and my betta.

Rewatching this two years after posting. Girl Talks Fish: Thanks for 10K subscribers! Me: I wonder what she think of her 104K now? LOL

I've been looking for some for quite awhile. I like the look of Frogbit much more than water lettuce. I think I have found a way to get rid of my duckweed easily but want to get a replacement floating plant. I don't want to use water sprite as I prefer it planted in substrate rather than floating. I am still trying to successfully grow mosquito fern but haven't had much luck. Also, Foo the Flowerhorn channel uses the airline tube to keep the floaters out and not in like you are using. either way works. One question. Is the light you have success with Frogbit a full spectrum white/blue/red led or just white/blue? Notice any difference with lights without the red LEDs?

Awesome video! My question: The glass canopy doesn’t block the UV light penetration?

Both my 10 gallon tanks have frogbits with roots that are at least a foot in length, its crazy!!

I know we need a medium-light for this plant but what is the specific range of hours?

Can frogbit prosper in an outside 10 Gal tank with no electric light, I live in Central Florida. wondering if filtered light outside on my porch if they will create more. Great Care guide.

Congrats

Solution to having issues with too much of any plant: chuck it in a goldfish tank

Frogbit seems to be the hardiest floating plant. When my sponge filter started dying all night every night, eventually all my fish died and some plants. Duckweed thank god, salvia minima, and red root floaters all died. Yet my frogbit stayed alive and thriving the entire time. Java moss also came back alive and completely took over the tank

I love how relatable you are

Guppies love to eat the roots to, especially the fry

i ussually use seachem ferts for my frogbit

Love your hair long x