Snapped plant roots? And plant ID please.

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cilan

Discussion Starter · Feb 25, 2014

I literally JUST bought this plant.. xD I was cleaning it up when I accidentally snapped the roots. Here it is:

Can anything be saved? If I just stick the part with the plant leaves into the tank, will it regrow its roots? Or If I just stick the roots part into the tank, a new plant will grow from it? Or is it considered dead. What a bummer. Byebye 9 dollars xDDD This is the first time I've seen a plant like this and it's so beautiful.

Had to take a picture out of water since I didn't disinfect it yet and had no glass boxes to take a submerged picture.

And does anyone know the name of this plant? This is the first time I've seen it and bought the last one lol X_X Thank you!

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evaninspace

· #2 · Feb 25, 2014

Narrow Leaves Hygrophyla

That might be

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/m..._Hygrophyla_Hygrophyla_corymbosa_angustifolia

If so you will be able to get two plants out of that broken plant if you give it enough time and light to grow. For the leafy part remove the bottom leaf or perhaps the bottom three leaves. You want to stick just enough stem in the substrate so that it doesn't float away. It should grow roots as the bottom portion did. -- For your bottom portion, trim away a good amount of that root and stick the stem into the substrate.

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Shawn123

· #3 · Feb 25, 2014

Looks like a stem plant ( maybe willow hygro?), so both parts should still grow fine.

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cilan

Discussion Starter · #4 · Feb 25, 2014 (Edited by Moderator)

Wow. You are both right. It is the hygro! I found some pics that matched the plant exactly. Thank you, thank you!!

I just got one more question then. Since I just got these plants, I was planning on disinfecting them with a bleach dip. Since the stem/root part is exposed, is it okay to still do the dip on the plant?

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OVT

· #5 · Feb 25, 2014

evaninspace said:
That might be

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/m..._Hygrophyla_Hygrophyla_corymbosa_angustifolia

If so you will be able to get two plants out of that broken plant if you give it enough time and light to grow. For the leafy part remove the bottom leaf or perhaps the bottom three leaves. You want to stick just enough stem in the substrate so that it doesn't float away. It should grow roots as the bottom portion did. -- For your bottom portion, trim away a good amount of that root and stick the stem into the substrate.

Perfect ID and perfect advise.

Why would you want to bleach dip it? For snails? You have ~5 leaves there, I would just run my fingers against each leaf and remove the eggs, if any.

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cilan

Discussion Starter · #6 · Feb 25, 2014 (Edited)

Hiya! These are plants bought from Petco and other fish stores that's been running with water from other fish tanks. Last time I added new plants without quarantine, my favourite goldfish got sick and died all within days of me adding the plant so I assume there must have been something on the plant that got introduced to the aquarium.

I was planning on doing a bleach and then a quarantine for parasites/diseases, etc.

They have actually been sitting by themselves since Saturday so maybe this is enough to kill of parasites without a fish host? :/ I've never really read up on it, but I don't know how likely there is to be something on the plants when you get them from the stores. I would like to add them to my aquarium ASAP, but I had these fish for so long, if I lost any, I would be devastated.

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evaninspace

· #7 · Feb 26, 2014

I haven't had any problems with dead fish as a result of a new plant but if you have then I can understand some paranoia. If you feel the need to bleach might as well get it done and get your plant into the tank.

I usually use 1/10 bleach/water solution for algae removal but I've read 1/20 could still do the trick for basic cleansing. I have no idea how these concentrations work on the most common pathogens/fungus. I have used the 1/10 solution on this very plant to remove algae. It worked fine but some of the weaker leaves did die off. I wouldn't go more than 20-30 seconds because then you might be just killing your otherwise healthy plant. Rinse off the plant right away. I then immediately soak my plant in some dechlorinated water or tank water.

Once you are satisfied it is no longer going to infect your tank and is no longer all bleached up, stick it in the tank.

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