Question: Surface aquarium plants with long roots? Help?

[benh]

Hi :happy: Looking for someone with a broad knowledge of aquarium plants (or just more knowledge than me - which isn't difficult!)

I remember seeing a very beautiful tank set-up on this site (looked for half an hour and couldn't find it again... *sigh*) which featured plants sitting on the surface of the water with long roots reaching down into the tank. Thought it looked amazing! I guess they were some sort of lilly pad?

I just wondered if there are any readily available plants where I live (uk) that I could get for my tank which do this. At the moment I just have elodea, some floating freely at the surface, and some anchored at the bottom. Mine isn't a huge tank by any means, but I'd love to know if there are any plants which produce a forrest of roots for my Axie to explore
Thanks for any suggestions guys!

 

[jclee]

Sounds like frogbit to me:
Floating Plants - Frogbit - Floating Plant

 

[benh]

Cheers! :happy:

That seems like it might work - not sure if it would grow well in a tank, it seems to be for ponds? But hope it would work, looks like the type of plant I'm after.