We were at our LFS the other day, shopping for stuff to put in our betta's tank, when we saw the most beatuiful plant! It said on the tank it was called a Cabanna plant. When we got it home we put it in the betta's new tank. We stuffed it into the gravel and it looks perfect there! Some of it broke off and constantly floats around the top of the tank, being pushed along by the bubbles' current. Our betta (Blu) loves to swim through the "obsticle coarse" that is the floating plant. I highly reccomend this plant for any fish-lover that wants to have a "jungle" tank. We bought a plastic version of it and it said on the package it was called a "cabamma" plant, so we don't know which way it's spelled. Either way, paired with amason swords and other similar leafy plants, it completes the habitat for any tank.

P.S. how do you like my "rate-a-plant" idea?

I guess since Betta's are bubble-nest builders, it may see the floating plant as a prospective breeding site.

I think the current in my betta's tank is too strong for him to bubble-nest...

i am affraid i've never heard of this pant, not that i'm an expert.

i did a google search tho under both spellings with the word aquarium too. i even tried cabana and cabama but i got no results for aquarium plants.

do u have any pics of the plant?

Must be a 'local' name.

There was nothing in the 'Kasselmann' book. Best I could find on the Net, was Cabana Palm, and Cabana Tea Rose... Since it doesn't fill much of my tank, I guess I'll have to vote "Don't like it!"