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Mine has some leaves, but i feel like it's dormant for winter, the leaf stalks aren't growing at all, and it's well rooted i got it about a month ago, when i bought them previously in spring/summer they got going straight away.

Wow sounds traumatic! maybe mine were better fed than i thought!

What will sometimes happen is algae eaters will initially feed on biofilms, which they really enjoy, but once these are exhausted they will switch to preferable plant sources especially young growth, the SAE seems a more likely culprit to me, i've not really experienced amano's eating anything...

Freshwater Rhodophyta :) very pleasing to look at it grow if you get it on the glass, it has very nice growth rings. Staghorn or oedgonium? http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/algae.htm

I have read an article by Eugene Zagnitko, he says it is due to variance in water levels, and also elevated po4 levels apparently can induce flowering, he grows rare anubias including non aquatic ones according to the article. Anubias plants for beginners and hobbyists - TopTropicals.com...

In-vitro tissue culture is great stuff, i'm definitely a fan.

I did read recently about some UK suppliers having problems getting their plants wholesale from thailand due to a certain situation with trade and taxes in the UK, but I've not bought imported plants for a few years now, and whenever I did they had all sorts of insects residing in them, and...

For me lowering lighting intensity via a dimmer or increasing the distance between the light unit and the substrate is the number one thing that helped greatly with any algae issue i have had in the past, Not in regards to stopping any bloom, but just in regard to slowing the whole problem down...

My anubias new leaves are a dead giveaway for lack of ferts, almost as good a canary as the duckweed index. Just an aside, i have experienced BBA not just as a result of not enough ppm co2, variable co2, inadequate circulation, but also too much circulation and crazy build up near filter...

Three is grown emersed, it's either Helianthum quadricostatus or Helanthium "bolivianum" quadricostatus, the last one is indeed hard, part of me feels like it's an emersed stem plant.

You could definitely be right, hard to tell with the pic but does look like variegation, would also maybe expect to see some plantlets or flowering stems on Emersed grown cyperus.

Gonna be wrong here but here's a stab in the dark, Cyperus, Myriophyllum, sagittaria subulata/echinodorus quadricostatus, crypt parva/willisii, and i wanna say either rotala or heteranthera/some stargrass of some sort?

I'd say it was more a "whirlpool" effect than a gyre effect in most practical cases and reef tanks. Gyres are powered by wind and the coriolis effect, whereas the kind of flows these setups with filter outlets and powerheads mimic are more like trapped water or deflection in freshwater, you can...

forgive the crude drawing i'm not growing any stem plants right now, prune leaves off if you feel like it, you could leave the petioles attached and trim the main leaf off for anchorage if you are worried about rotting. This obviously applies only to opposite leaved plants.

I think i know what you mean actually, mr shenanigans is right, when you prep them usually you are left with just a single stem thats a bit like a skinny asparagus, it has no grip to it and likes to come up out of the substrate, if you can leave a few leaves on the part of the stem you are...

I didn't use any fertilization when propagating or cloning myself a few years back, apart from what comes in the tap water, and i use de-chlorinator in the tap water, also i find compost introduces all sorts of nasties, whereas rockwool is pretty sterile, once root systems start growing or you...

Squeeze to keep them compact, roll for finishing, and if they get monstrous just cut into halves and re-shape, they are fairly bombproof. As far as unravelling goes, only if they have a fissure through them or a split, if they have grown well they shouldn't come apart from cutting.

Just a follow up, an interesting observation about this Sp. is that all the growth i thought was rooted and established has melted off, leaving me with a few plants that have roots attached to driftwood, seems this callitriche Sp. doesn't like to be planted in substrate. :thumbup:

It's a lovely looking moss when it waves in flowing water, a really unique looking plant that would be something different to try in a river type scape, thanks for the replies tim. :)

my thinking was that the moss colonised the rock at an early stage and then grew to this size, rather than attached as a mature specimen, to be fair i don't even know if what i have is "willow moss" but it looks like what i have found under the name fontinalis antipyretica, it is much larger...

i think i have some of this, mis-labeled as crypt parva from the seller, it grows really slow.

as per title, growing it at 25C just fine, lovely and green, but will it actually attach itself? i did find it growing attached to a rock but i'm wondering if you can just tie it to something and get it to attach itself, i've read differing opinions from searches.

Would be interesting to hear from @Mick.Dk if he knows any reasons why it has gone out of fashion with growers... :)

Thought it was summer already with this weather we are having... :woot::thumbup:

Put it under a sodium lamp @zozo force that sucker to flower... :lol::lol:

It could work on a single sword plant i suppose, i missed the point really sorry @tam :facepalm:

i wish i had a picture of the root system from my 4 year old crypt and sagittaria tank when i ripped it out... that method would have never worked if i wanted to remove individual plants it was literally 2 inches deep and covering the whole base of a 120cm tank, i can see what you are getting at...

Easier said than done with mature plants, like others have said the root systems get so extensive it is impossible to seperate individual roots, easier to do this with a semi-mature tank. Sent from my E2303 using Tapatalk

I think the key probably lies in some habitat distribution maps i have found. [emoji106] Sent from my E2303 using Tapatalk

I have done the same as sciencefiction with crypts, seems to work well with aquasoil, not sure about heavy rooting plants in sand though. When removing sagittaria runners i trim around the runner plant roots and remove, this works because the rest of the plant mass is usually interconnected to...

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how would i tell if this is truncata, palustris or stagnalis? all 3 seem very similar, it is definitely not hermaphroditica though.

Just a bit of further info, been keeping it at 25C for 5 days now, no melt and some growth, seems to tolerate tropical temperatures well. :)

Bang on the money i think, i thought it was a callitriche. :) thanks Petra. :thumbup::clap:

i'm a bit lost where to start with looking for what this is, i've seen similar plants sold from pond suppliers as callitriche? found in fully aquatic growth form, couldn't find any growing outside of the stream.

I'm trying to grow some stuff from submerged to emersed at the moment, a few different species, water sprite, eleocharis, micranthemum umbrosum, hygrophila and ceratopteris thalictroides, humidity really is key high humidity at that, but it also needs ample airing throughout the day, so a...

Most people use mosses or fissidens for their aquatic bonsai's.

Yeah mine are only this pink colour when they are curled up before they unfurl.

The new leaves my buces produce are a completely different colour to the older leaves, it seems almost like they have to "age" before they revert to a deeper colour, if you are NOT injecting CO2 it could also be a lack of available carbon so the plants are producing finer more delicate growth...

i'm growing Blyxa pretty well with ADA amazonia and no CO2, light EI dosing, had some melt whilst ammonia was high in the beginning, but seems to be going from strength to strength now, and putting on a bit of a pinker colour. *edit* very very hard water, and lots of surface agitation and...

Anubias need a very high level of humidity to grow emersed, https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/riparium-how-to-high-humidity-setups.12829/ this thread from @hydrophyte has some great info.

Might be emersed grown undulata? crypts are bloody hard to identify because there are just so many, and so many growing variations based on environmental factors.

Neptunia oleracea ludwigia sedoides Stratiotes aloides they are all pond plants though, and that is literally all i can find.

https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/flowering-floating-plants.39696/

I would agree with this across the board, like any terrestrial plant, aquatics will change form, colour and size based on environmental factors, i have had the same sp. of crypts (wendtii) be HUGE and very brown in a CO2 high light tank, and the same crypts completely transformed to a small...

Found it, it's rotala nanjenshan emersed form. :)

i got no idea, the lower leaves are emersed growth, the top stuff is submersed growth, very different colouration, the emersed growth is pretty much a teal or turqoise colour, really quite blue.

I have read that bristlenoses will eat certain echinodorus sp. but i think it is more the fact that they have favoured resting leaves and will 'rasp' on the leaf repeatedly in the same spot, i have never kept bristlenoses though so i can't confirm this.

just leave em if you want, if they are bothering you snip em off at the base, you can trim and plant the runners too, but make sure you have atleast 2 leaves to a runner before you replant. the floaters look great m8 :) mine are spreading now.

hygros will root from a single leaf, thats just the way they are, always searching to branch out and gain new sources of nutrients and new rooting zones, ive only ever had this with hygros myself.

im not really the guy to ask on that as i dont have much experience myself, i dont wanna say up your nutrients just for your tank to go unbalanced, try contacting someone like CEG or one of the other mods they will be able to help you, if you post your tank stats you will get more advice too.

its just what stem plants do when they are searching for nutrients, you can nip them off if they are bothering you.