should i take out my a. ulvaceus???

[K_S_W_I_S_S]

so that my other plants can grow?? i have like 7 of them and i think i should take out all but one and put them somewhere else so that they dont eat up all the nutrients.... and it will also make room for more plants... i have one that i put outside and i can give one to my dad and when i set up a tank for my cousin, i can give one to her... and the others i can maybe give to a lfs for credit... think they would do that??

[TomFromStLouis]

Not necessarily. IF I were restricted to just one plant in a tank, yours would be on the short list. It is a beautiful species. But it sounds like you want some variety, and of course we are not limited to one kind, so do what you gotta do. Call around if you are looking for store credit - I ahve yet to find a lfs nearby that gives it.

[wetmanNY]

You have a couple more months of A. ulvaceus to go. Then it turns to cellophane in the summer heat and dies back to the bulb. Don't disturb the bulb. Plant up your tank for summer.

In the fall, hold back putting in the heater again. Give the system a full month with temps in the sixties. Then let it warm up a little and you'll have the Aponogeton flowering by Thanksgiving...

...maybe.

[K_S_W_I_S_S]

they are already flowering.... but ive never seen any new plants starting from the flowers (where ever they come from). but i accidently kill the flowers (one is still doing good)... what happens is somewhere along the stem i barely smash it (on accident) and it ends up dieing...

[wetmanNY]

Fertility is reduced when pollen from the same flower spike hits the stigma. For fertility, you really need two Aponogetons flowering together. (They hybridize like crazy, btw. Karen Randall says we generally only see hybrids in the market.)

I hear that the seeds have to fall naturally into a floating plastic lid swimming with water. You can't fry them in the heat of your lighting. Then you start them sprouting on mud that's barely awash with water, under a panel of glass in a low dish.

...ah but then other people report little Aponogetons popping up all over their tanks... the same people I suppose who have Otocinclus breeding naturally in their planted tanks...

boy, stuff like that never happens to me...