[ferrarikid]

I got this plant today and don't know exactly what it is and if i should put it in my 3wpg tank or 1.5wpg tank...:hihi:
Any info would be helpful...
thanks!

 

[Jdinh04]

It looks like some kind of sword, maybe Amazon? Either tank is fine, the plant should grow in either of them.

 

[JenThePlantGeek]

It's an Echinodoras sp., commonly called a sword plant. Hard to say what type it is though, but most of them get very large. You gave the WPG, but not the sizes of the tanks. Put it in whichever tank is biggest, should do ok under either light level. They also appreciate root tabs and slightly deeper substrate.

 

[ferrarikid]

Ok, the 3wpg is 55gallon and the 1.5 wpg is only a 10gallon !! So I guess I know where to put it!!!I was just looking and to me it looks like a not so red melon sword...?
Thanks!

 

[James From Cali]

It will outgrow your 55g though lol. I think in a couple years it will be 2x the size of the 55g.

 

[James From Cali]

Okay just letting you know. But it looks like a melon, possibly a young amazon.

 

[ferrarikid]

Thats What I'm thinkin too

 

[Daniel*Swords]

I think it is emersed E. martii - the ruffled sword. Note the wavy margin + esp. the pseudopenninervature, ie. the side veins starting off round the middle of the leaf. E. martii gets about 20 '' high. Could be a Melon, too, not Amazon, imo.

 

[distrbd]

It looks very much like a Melon sword.if the leaves start to turn pinkish red ,then it's definitely a melon sword.

 

[spypet]

can I get a quick plant ID please on these bright green foot-high slow-medium growing stems;

LEFT: 1.0cm leaf , single stem off the root
RIGHT: 0.5cm leaf , very thin branching stem

 

[JenThePlantGeek]

What about Micranthemum umbrosum? If not that, then perhaps some sort of Bacopa.

 

[fresh_lynny]

Jen is correct....they came form me freebies.

 

[spypet]

Thanks Jen. Fresh, you might find this amusing;
while you graciously gave me a Micranthemum umbrosum stem,
the Bacopa monnieri was actually a hitchhiker buried in the
Elatine triandra you sold me. a week after planting your ET
one lonely stem started growing vertical instead of Horizontal,
and with extra care I nursed it into that lovely bunch of BM
you see today what I love most about BM is how it does
not seem to attract diatoms on it's lower leaves like MU does.
BM is so soft that my fish seem to like swimming thru it, but
it does not break apart into floaters as many fine plants will.
I like this BM much more than Hemianthus micranthemoides.

amazing what hitchhikers you can get plant trading.
recently I traded for a baseball of Glossostigma elatinoides.
I isolated the plants in a container for a few weeks,
(I'm paranoid about getting other peoples algae)
and found;
duckweed
java moss
black ramshorns
even live Daphnia!

 

[LS6 Tommy]

can I get a quick plant ID please on these bright green foot-high slow-medium growing stems;

LEFT: 1.0cm leaf , single stem off the root
RIGHT: 0.5cm leaf , very thin branching stem

It looks like Pond Penny to me. If it has 3 distinct veins on the leaves and grows fast, I'd guess Lindernia.

Tommy