Growing Lemon Bacopa (Bacopa Caroliniana) In The Aquarium

This plant comes from US where it grows in marshy and swampy areas (e.g. ponds, ditches, swamps, slow-moving streams) and floodplains.

It has long stem. There are oval with pointed tips, sessile, opposite leaves on the stem. These leaves are arranged in pairs with successive pairs at right angles to each other – the so-called decussate location. Colour of the leaf is variable and it depends on intensity of light. This colour can be green, red and russet-brown in optimum conditions. This species blooms only above the water surface.

We should plant it in the middle of the aquarium in group of several pieces. We may also plant this species terraced.

This plant prefers clean water with systematic partial water changes and additional nutrients. We may add iron to the substrate. The species is sensitive to high water temperatures and rapid changes water temperature.

This is spermatophyte plant but in aquarium we reproduce it vegetatively – by seedlings from cut stems.