6ft!?!? OMG! I wonder if there are more than 1 "c.calamistrum (calamistratum)"? or maybe growing conditions, age, bulb size? I got mine from a restaurant tank, LOTS of offsets but none over 20 inches or so tall & pretty thin leaves, 1/8 inch maybe. I don't remember for sure but I think it had CO2, no clue on lighting, at least "medium". Mine get new leaves but all are thin.
Yeah, I hear you on the Excel, I nuked the skinny 1's from my friend, they're not quite dead last I checked but very severely unhappy, the only tank I use Excel in. She has them growing in a greenhouse, minimal water movement but lots of sun. It "may" be v. nana but it spreads & even flowers quite readily underwater, she has a ton. That sounds closer to yours although skinnier than my "jungle-ish" val, but again growing conditions?
A plant club member has really tall (24") crazy spreading c. balansae he brings to almost every meet but they aren't so vigorous in my lower tech tanks. 1 is almost a "bonsai" tiny offset for me in a 20g long, not longer than 3 or 4 inches ever, after well over a year, lol. You never know!
Yeah, I hear you on the Excel, I nuked the skinny 1's from my friend, they're not quite dead last I checked but very severely unhappy, the only tank I use Excel in. She has them growing in a greenhouse, minimal water movement but lots of sun. It "may" be v. nana but it spreads & even flowers quite readily underwater, she has a ton. That sounds closer to yours although skinnier than my "jungle-ish" val, but again growing conditions?
A plant club member has really tall (24") crazy spreading c. balansae he brings to almost every meet but they aren't so vigorous in my lower tech tanks. 1 is almost a "bonsai" tiny offset for me in a 20g long, not longer than 3 or 4 inches ever, after well over a year, lol. You never know!
