List of marine aquarium plant species
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Aquatic plant
s are used to give the aquarium
a natural appearance, oxygenate the water
, and provide habitat
for fish
, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrate
s. Some aquarium fish and invertebrates also eat live plants. Hobby aquarists use aquatic plants for aquascaping
.
Seagrass
Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments. They are also referred to as hydrophytes or aquatic macrophytes. These plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water's surface. Aquatic plants can only grow in water or in soil that is...
s are used to give the aquarium
Aquarium
An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...
a natural appearance, oxygenate the water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
, and provide habitat
Habitat (ecology)
A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or other type of organism...
for fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrate
Invertebrate
An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...
s. Some aquarium fish and invertebrates also eat live plants. Hobby aquarists use aquatic plants for aquascaping
Aquascaping
Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium—in effect, gardening under water. Aquascape designs include a number of distinct styles, including the garden-like Dutch style and the...
.
SeagrassSeagrassSeagrasses are flowering plants from one of four plant families , all in the order Alismatales , which grow in marine, fully saline environments.-Ecology:...
es
- Turtle grass, ThalassiaThalassiaThalassia may refer to:*Thalassia, Greece, a prefecture in Greece*Thalassia , a genus of seagrass commonly known as "turtle grass"*Thalassia , a queen of Characene...
hemprichii and ThalassiaThalassiaThalassia may refer to:*Thalassia, Greece, a prefecture in Greece*Thalassia , a genus of seagrass commonly known as "turtle grass"*Thalassia , a queen of Characene...
testudinum - Manatee grass, Syringodium filiforme