Please help on plant ID in lost...

[TrxsHHMxN]

Can someone tell me if this is SALVINIA maxima or whatever?

 

[Blacksheep1]

Not sure about the maxima but yeah it’s salvinia

 

[Cue]

That would be salvania minima.

 

[TrxsHHMxN]

Yeah that's totally what I meant. I swear Thanks guys.

So in that case, What I feared about my surface agitation and current being way to aggressive being the cause of the slow die-off and next to know growth or self-replication (whatever you call it) My filter (FX4) is a little over kill on the relatively small tank(55gallon)it's currently installed on. Considering what this canister is capable of I'm surprised any of my floaters are still.... floating. I think I'll definitely shut the valve a little more and maybe put a floater wrangling ring on the surface to keep the plants from being shot to the bottom by the out-take and see if that maybe helps. Make sure they stay on the calmer side of things. Please correct me where I may be wrong and chime in on any advice you might have. Thank you.

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[Cue]

That would probably be your best bet. My salvania was the only floater to survive my high flow tanks, so your plant choice was good

 

[TrxsHHMxN]

Really? Well dang.... So you think my plan is sound than? Throwing a hoop over the lot on the calm.. er side?

 

[Cue]

sounds like a plan. The most issue mine had was getting flipped upside-down or sunk by the current.

 

[Blacksheep1]

Some of mine gets pushed under and caught on plants , too strong for water lettuce but the salvinia does well. Instead of a hoop try glass to glass so you shut off a section if that makes sense. Visual to be clear but a larger section.

 

[TrxsHHMxN]

Some of mine gets pushed under and caught on plants , too strong for water lettuce but the salvinia does well. Instead of a hoop try glass to glass so you shut off a section if that makes sense. Visual to be clear but a larger section. View attachment 867172

You mean like using a silicone seal to adhere 2" maybe 4" inch deep glass segments into the corner as a sort of semi permanent coral? Sounds actually quite feasible in my opinion. Might give that a try. Thanks for the idea.
My current fix was just a circular floating hoop I made out of spare air tubing. I mean I guess it works but the smallest turbulence on the surface can knock them out or under to be more exact. And I mean dropping the water level for as long as the cure time on the silicone would require really wouldn't be all that bad considering it would only be slightly under said glass segments... Cheers mate, I'll post a pic of the results once I get an opportunity.

 

[SamMe]

I think Blacksheep1 might have meant something like this. Forgive the messiness, I just installed it late last night and haven't had time to arrange it the way I want it or adjust the length of the tubing. This is in a 7g. It has tubing (you can get clear or black) with suction cups on each end to attach to the glass. I chose to add self-levelers. This way, you can move it wherever you want instead of it being permanent like silicone would be.

Edit: Before I bought the suction cups and tubing, I used plastic cookie cutters with deep sides to corral my floating plants.

 

[Blacksheep1]

I actually did mean more like samMe’s photo above but sure !! whatever works I guess .. that’s the thing about ideas , they can be flexible to change