java fern.

[bluekrissyspike]

i just bought a new java fern and it has little green balls all over it. they look kinda like eggs but seem to be made if plant material. i can't get a pic of it. is this how it reproduces or is it some weird kinda parasitic eggs? the only thing i could find living in the tank they came from were some cichlid fry and mts

 

[carolinyens]

All over it? Means all over it literally as in on the tops and bottoms of leaves? Mine has some on the underside of the leaves but its roots growing on the stem part of the plant.

 

[thebrandon]

mts are live bearers so it wasn't them, maybe tiny leafs? Leafs will grow off just about everywhere on the plant. Do you see any roots coming off anywhere around them?

 

[bluekrissyspike]

All over it? Means all over it literally as in on the tops and bottoms of leaves? Mine has some on the underside of the leaves but its roots growing on the stem part of the plant.

they are mostly on the upper sides of the leaves near the tips but some are in other areas as well.

mts are live bearers so it wasn't them, maybe tiny leafs? Leafs will grow off just about everywhere on the plant. Do you see any roots coming off anywhere around them?

no roots on them, but the whole plant doesn't really have any roots on it, just riozome and leaf. it was floating around the tank randomely and it's in pretty rough shape but it is hard to get plants here, and the nursery that supplies all the lps in the area shut down recently too so i am hoping to nurse it back to health.

 

[Bansart]

chances are those are java fern plantlets growing on the main plant leaf. if you see a brown thread like material (roots) coming out of it on the bottom of the leaf then it is a plantlet. they usually start out as a dot then knob then will start to uncurl into a leaf.

 

[bluekrissyspike]

okay. that sounds like what it is. thanks.

 

[Fishy_Fun]

I get those on my java but iv'e never seen any babies from them.When the leaves begin to get black dots and holes is when i start to see java babies growing on the leaves

 

[stussy28]

I believe the little green spots that your talking about are the spores which is how they reproduce. Mine have them for awhile, but like fishy_fun said, when they get black and the leaves get holes is when they have begun to have baby java ferns.

 

[bluekrissyspike]

okay, thanks guys.

 

[BoCoMo]

Posting a pic for reference purposes would be cool...