Ever wonder what a rhizome looks like?

[madasafish]

Here's a picture of one of my mini swords. The long horizontal strand to the bottom right of the picture is the rhizome (a way of propegating a plant without sexual reproduction). It extends about 3 inches and has two new stems growing from it. I've had these swords for about 2 or 3 weeks now. This is an exciting development!

Just thought you might be interested if you hadn't seen a rhizome before...

 

[madasafish]

And if your browser's working the same way mine is, you get to see snow falling past the plant, too. Neat!

 

[An t-iasg]

Neat...when is it ready to cut off of the main plant? Will you separate them when the rhizome grows bigger? Now I see how planted tanks could get overgrown!

The snow is falling all over the site for me I viewed Reefrunner's gallery and it was snowing on his corals!

 

[madasafish]

I'm actually trying to get the swords to overgrow the tank bottom. It's often very gratifying to have a completely green bottom like in Takashi Amano's show tanks (look him up if you haven't seen his work!).

Gonna buy some Marsilea quadrifolia also for the 55G tank, since that's a great foreground coverage plant, too.

 

[MantisX]

Cool beans. Ive never gotten any runners of my swords except for tellenus.