roydooms
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I bought this at petsmart. 2-assorted potted plants for $5. None of the staff knows what type of plant this is. Please I'D. Thanks!
Crepe said:Wow great deal!. It's E. Tenellum or more correctly :helanthium tenellum.
They require medium to high light and good root ferts.
Nice foreground plant.
Crepe said:Wow great deal!. It's E. Tenellum or more correctly :helanthium tenellum.
They require medium to high light and good root ferts.
Nice foreground plant.
Coleallensmom said:Looks so nice and healthy! Crepe is probably right...Looks like chain sword from your pics. I have this plant in both of my planted tanks. In my low- medium light tank it is sustained but doesn't show growth. In my tank with higher light (the 20 gal), I see new shoots on it everyday. It can have amazing growth under the right light.
Coleallensmom said:Mine started out from just a small bunch plant, not large pots like you were able to get. You should be easily be able to seperate some of those plants to get a nice spread.
mom2reds said:looks good...
Jason7894561230 said:That is a very slow growing plant FYI
Gillie said:That actally looks more like Lilaeopsis carolinensis/microsword than a pygmy chain, the plant is still in it's emersed form and not showing the flower stalk commonly found coming from emersed Helanthium tenellum pots
Helanthium
http://www.aquabotanic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cparva-3.jpg
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p184/sunmiztres/pigmychainsword20large.jpg
Lilaeopsis
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4h4rYFFT7fjejwBTO-oibQjCyt3JFfBQAXUV0QfqchCOc8w_iCQ&t=1
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