Aquarium plants with flowers?

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Anyone know of any or has them forsale? Other then floating plants.

Also, how can you get anubias to grow out its flowers?
 
Yeah.

I been sitting here looking through a japanese aquarium book. "Aquarium Plants: The Practical Guide"

Looked through all 215 pages of plants...and found a couple.

But cant find them for sale or any info on growing their "flowers".

Hygrophila Corymbosa v. "Stricta" aka Temple Plant.
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Echinodorus sp. "Scaber"
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Aponogeton natans
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And my guess to make these sprout their flowers is to have them grow all the way to the top out of the water.
 
I don't know of any formula to get anubias to flower. When mine flowered last week the conditions were: 10 gallon tank, 2 10 watt compact fluorescents, Hagen CO2 system, a few drops of Florapride a day, and water changes once a week. Something I did do different was I split the rhizome to form two plants a while ago when I rearranged the tank. I believe it was the next thing to come up after along with another leaf. Anubias is one of the few plants that will flower under water, because it doesn't know a different.

Here's a few pics from the anubias plant before I cut it and then with the flower:

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most of the dry bulbs that are sold at wal-mart and the like are aponegeton.. which will bloom profusely if you let them. easy to grow, nice fillers.
 
I should be getting abunch of anubias next shipment.

And will see if spliting them will cause them to flower.
 
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