Hi I am new on the fish room and I am looking for a floting plant with the name pista straiotes ore water lettuce ho can help me with this.

I hope that my spelling ok (I am dutch) .

frome scalare

From the FNZAS plant survey

WATER LETTUCE

A NOXIOUS PLANT. Please destroy if found

It wouldn't survive down there with the frosts

Even if ya could find it scalare

Alan 104

I'll try to be as welcoming as others have been to me! Welcome to the forum Scalare! I'm a newbie, so I can't answer your question, but there seems to be a wealth of knowledge here if you need to tap into it.

Good luck!

Brian

Welcome to the forum (that you Marcel?). Water lettuce is illegal in NZ and it will grow that far south as I know someone who had it in a shed where he breeds turtles in Timaru. He tried to get rid of it by telling MAF he had it (figuring they would destroy it for him) but they came around and said "That doesn't look anything like the pictures we have, it isn't water lettuce" and left again. So he was stuck with it. This was many years ago so I don't know if he still has it as he was going to destroy it by burning it. He was well aware it was water lettuce, no matter what MAF said.

I dit not know that this plant wash iligal in new zealand

thanks fore informing me

scalare

scalare??? sorry to be nosey but what does your name mean?

Why?

It means they are a little angel,

not ANGLE either.

Alan 104

Hi brainemone

Scalare comes frome my favourite fish the angel pterophyllum scalare

I hope this answers yuor qestion

yep, just making sure there wasnt an italian on the board,