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Toxicfish

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Hi all,

Can some please be kind enough to ID this plant for me? I have forgotten the name of it, so i cannot research if it is truly an aquatic plant, the LFS said it is, but, well, you know them, and that's why we're here :)

The pot is a crypt, that's all I know, to the right are the pink baby tears, at the back is hygro I believe, and the other two i have no idea...

Sorry for the poor pic quality, it's from my phone, but I did take a zoomed in shot of the main plant question...

Any assistance is greatly appreciated, I have a 100 gallon tall tank, so probably need to err on the low light plants like my anubias to get by, I only have 3 30W T8 tubes...

Thnx in advance,

Scott.

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Nice looking tank. The back does look like some kind of hygro. I don't see a crypt in the photo, but I could just be over looking it. Which one do you think is a crypt?

Also curious to see the pink baby tears up close. I am not familiar with any aquatic plant that looks like baby tears but is pink...

I THINK the plant in the big picture that you are wondering about is a brazillian sword. That is my initial guess anyway. It is non-aquatic if it is a brazillian. Hopefully I am wrong... but that's my initial thought. Let's see if someone else can throw out a different guess as to what it is. How long have the plants been in the tank?
 
AHH! I see it. I lacked perspective. It is a BIG tank. It is there... I was just looking for something relatively larger. Thanks BigJim.
 
fort384 said:
Nice looking tank. The back does look like some kind of hygro. I don't see a crypt in the photo, but I could just be over looking it. Which one do you think is a crypt?

Also curious to see the pink baby tears up close. I am not familiar with any aquatic plant that looks like baby tears but is pink...

I THINK the plant in the big picture that you are wondering about is a brazillian sword. That is my initial guess anyway. It is non-aquatic if it is a brazillian. Hopefully I am wrong... but that's my initial thought. Let's see if someone else can throw out a different guess as to what it is. How long have the plants been in the tank?

This is what I was sold as pink baby tears, please do let me know if I am wrong..

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This is the crypt? But heck, i could be wrong about that too ;-) it was a freebie from the LFS, I just haven't had a chance to transfer out of the pot..

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And another closeup of my mysterious plant that I now suspect even more of not being aquatic... * sigh *

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Your pink baby tears looks a lot like telanthera rosefolia. Crypts are hard to ID for sure until they flower, which rarely happens in an aquarium. It might be Wendtii.
 
Toxicfish said:
And another closeup of my mysterious plant that I now suspect even more of not being aquatic... * sigh *

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Well, I have successfully confirmed this is Blue Stricta, a true aquatic plant, so i feel a little better now...

Will update with more pics shortly..

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