Brown's Limnophila

Limnophila brownii

An Australian marsh plant of the ambulia family, still rare in aquariums. Fast growing, like most of its genus, and undemanding about water.

Light: medium–high
Difficulty: medium
Temperature: 15 – 30 °C (59 – 86 °F)

Plant type: stem plant
Growth rate: fast
Tolerates light: medium – high
pH: 6 – 7
Carbonate hardness: 2 – 15 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: background, midground
Propagation: cuttings
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

Fine leaves in whorls along an upright stem, the typical build of the genus, which is what gives these plants their soft feathery look in a group.

Keeping

Moderate demands: medium to strong light, ordinary feeding, carbon dioxide optional. Growth is fast, so trimming is regular and each cut makes the group denser. It grows above water as well.

Placement

The middle or back of the tank, in a group of several stems.

Propagation

By cuttings: cut the top and plant it.

Water conditions match

The water suits 816 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Butterflyfish Julii Corydoras Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo Homaloptera bilineata Red-tailed Rasbora Boraras naevus Lampeye Killifish Spotted Raphael Catfish Corydoras melanotaenia Festivum cichlid Pseudomugil paskai

Will eat this plant

These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.

Bengal Loach Zebra Loach Burmese Border Loach Emperor Botia Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

Will uproot it

These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.

Marble Loach Peacock Eel Forktail Loach Guntea Loach Long-nosed Loach Horseface Loach Pearlscale Black Moor Goldfish Shubunkin Painted Pleco Featherfin Synodontis Reddish Mystus Catfish Blue Acara Geophagus altifrons Geophagus winemilleri Pearl Cichlid Red-spotted Cichlid Haplochromis philander Red Chromide Jack Dempsey cichlid

Matching water does not mean the fish will leave the plant alone.

The same plant with a different look: light, water and care are shared with the species.

Other varieties: Limnophila brownii Bund

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Other scientific names: Ambulia gratioloides (R. Br.) Wettst., Limnophila gratioloides R. Br., Stemodia gratioloides (R. Br.) F. Muell.
Limnophila brownii: Wannan
Family: Plantaginaceae
Range regions: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Brown's Limnophila

Tank conditions

Care and keeping