You can get kits with a filter,heater,light for about $40. You should be able to get it for half that on craigslist. you can get dividers at a pet store.
Amazon sword help please!!!
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You can get kits with a filter,heater,light for about $40. You should be able to get it for half that on craigslist. you can get dividers at a pet store.
i've heard this a lot. it's not true afaik. from what i understand echinodorus sp. grow in tidal/seasonal bogs/marshes where they're leafs are exposed at least on a yearly basis... if the bog/swamp doesn't dry up completely at some point in the year (no standing water).
anyway... if they can't even grow emerged then explain the beautiful amazon swords (being sold as emerged grown) in the pics here... http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=226710
EDIT: also... check out here... http://www.echinodorus-online.de/English/Species/bleheri_E/bleheri_e.html
anyway... if they can't even grow emerged then explain the beautiful amazon swords (being sold as emerged grown) in the pics here... http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=226710
EDIT: also... check out here... http://www.echinodorus-online.de/English/Species/bleheri_E/bleheri_e.html
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They can grow both ways, but if you bought one that was grown submerged, it will be far easier to continue to do that. If they are planted not the way they were grown, they will drop leaves and grow new ones to adjust, it takes time and is kinda ugly. The plant will not hurt your fish. Do you have a picture of the plant and the tank the betta is in?
half of the info i linked you to is from tropica... the single leader in the aquarium plant industry. if you've ever heard of "ver windelov" or "ver tropica"... they're plants tropica has crossed, produced or found themselves. Windelov is actually the last name of one of their botanists...
i also have a keen interest in emersed growth of "aquatic" plants. check my avatar... it's red root floater growing emersed in my terrarium. i've yet to see a mention on the web of anyone else growing it terrestrially (not that it hasn't happened).
i say "aquatic" because most "aquatic" plants sold for the aquarium hobby are actually terrestrials or marginals that just happen to do well underwater. many (like echinodorus sp.) happen to live somewhere that gets seasonal flooding creating an ebb and flow scenario where the plants are forced to take on different growth patterns quite frequently to adjust from terrestrial to aquatic growth and back.
for example... hydrocotyle sibthorpioides is an introduced/invasive species here in PA. i'm pretty sure it'll grow in my back yard if i let it. as a matter of fact, i'm pretty sure one of my neighbors has an hydrocotyle species growing and choking his lawn. i put some in my terra (from his lawn) but it got HUGE - FAST and i got it out of there quick.
like i mentioned before... with emergent leafs the only issue i can see is low humidity. when the leafs do crest the plant will probably be its healthiest and grow it's fastest for a while... until the leafs get tall enough to grow into dryer air... then they'll dry up/wilt/turn brown. if you can keep them shorter than that or put some cover over the tank to keep humidity in and still leave room for the plant leafs you should be good to go... and they'll get atmospheric co2. :dance:
Amazon swords can be grown emersed but they have to be in a high humidity environment. i have 3 growing emersed in my 20g setup. and a 10g is 13 bucks at walmart and as stated before, you can get kits for a good price.
