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does anyone know what this is? it grew in a bucket i have outside with salvinia
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Looks like java moss maybe?
 

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Its bladderwort.
Thrives in low light low nutrient environments carnivorous plant. The little bulbs on it are traps for small critters like cyclops and such but can be bad news with baby shrimp and baby fish.
Even a small thread hitchhiker on another plant will grow into this mass clump very fast.
Ive thrown mine into my goldfish tank lol

Here's a view of mine under a weak microscope
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And my clump kept in a breeder net in the goldfish tank, taking over my hornwort and duckweed and everything else lol
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You can put it in a jar in a sunny window and let it be, it'll grow. Harmless mostly, unless you've got fry and shrimplets. It can be a messy tangle plant that can choke out other plants too. It floats.
 

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Its bladderwort.
Thrives in low light low nutrient environments carnivorous plant. The little bulbs on it are traps for small critters like cyclops and such but can be bad news with baby shrimp and baby fish.
Even a small thread hitchhiker on another plant will grow into this mass clump very fast.
Ive thrown mine into my goldfish tank lol

Here's a view of mine under a weak microscope
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And my clump kept in a breeder net in the goldfish tank, taking over my hornwort and duckweed and everything else lol
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You can put it in a jar in a sunny window and let it be, it'll grow. Harmless mostly, unless you've got fry and shrimplets. It can be a messy tangle plant that can choke out other plants too. It floats.
interesting, I think I saw a little thread in the tank now that i've added saggitaria (that was in the same bucket that i found bladderwort).
I have grown fish and ramshorns so i don't think it'll do much other than grow.

It was quite messy to untangle it from salvinia roots.

off-topic but what camera did you use for the second picture?
 

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interesting, I think I saw a little thread in the tank now that i've added saggitaria (that was in the same bucket that i found bladderwort).
I have grown fish and ramshorns so i don't think it'll do much other than grow.

It was quite messy to untangle it from salvinia roots.

off-topic but what camera did you use for the second picture?
I use my Samsung 20 phone :)
 

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what causes roots of plants to rot? I noticed some roots of my sword and wisteria to look like this:
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base of my sword:

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While cleaning my stand I saw the root system of my sword:
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and also my wisterias:
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thought it was cool so figured why not share it... is the bottom supposed to be that dirty or am I not doing a good job at vacuuming??
 

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That mulm is food for your sword. I would not even worry about vacuuming where the roots are.
 

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Swords doing what they do! I never gravel vac my tanks with rooted plants. A superficial vac here and there maybe is about it.
 
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Your underneath the substrate roots look OK to me. They may get even more robust with root feeding. I just uprooted a "half size" sword & it had more I think...even with some trimming.

Are the little white balls osmocote? Or just a different substrate?
 
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