ok i just started getting back into the hobby, and i decided to renovate my 20 gal in my room, well i planted it up with 2 Amazon swords, a cutoff of my Anubias from my 30 gal that is now doing really well, Java Fern, and sum Java Moss and sum other small unknown plants that look like small leafy Anubias. When i bought the Amazon swords they were huge, same price as always but the LFS worker informed me that they had a particularly good crop this shipment. Well this one Amazon sword is over 12" tall and had a long stalk that shot up and hung across the surface with small leaves along it. i was worried that there wasnt enough light but now i'm noticing that the leafy parts along the stalk have started to grow what look like long roots. I'm not sure if this means its healthy and flourishing, or if its just one of those things like a potato sprouting when its gone bad.
right now the tank has 2 angels and 4 albino cories, water PH is around 7.4-7.6 which i'm lowering to around 6.8 for the amazon water parameters i'm trying to create.
Also i noticed sum bubbles around a few of the leaves that are touching the surface, i thought they were bubble nests but i dont have any fish in the tank that build bubble nests, i poked them and all the bubbles floated off and popped, water is not dirty or anything so i was confused. I've heard that really healthy plants may begin "bubbling" through photosynthesis, but i'm not sure. any help would be appreciated, thanks.
right now the tank has 2 angels and 4 albino cories, water PH is around 7.4-7.6 which i'm lowering to around 6.8 for the amazon water parameters i'm trying to create.
Also i noticed sum bubbles around a few of the leaves that are touching the surface, i thought they were bubble nests but i dont have any fish in the tank that build bubble nests, i poked them and all the bubbles floated off and popped, water is not dirty or anything so i was confused. I've heard that really healthy plants may begin "bubbling" through photosynthesis, but i'm not sure. any help would be appreciated, thanks.
If you like, you can trim the stalk about an inch below and a couple of inches above the plantlet, find a likely location for shade, and plant that lil' puppy. I've never let a stalk get to the surface, but in a 20G I bet it would.