Butterfly

I tend to plant water sprite as well as let it float. The one in the 55 is getting a little tall so I pinched the leaves and floated them in the Guppy tank and there are tiny little plants growing in the lobes already
Heres the plant it came from and then the leaf
Carol

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mingher

oooOOOOoooh pretty clever.

Butterfly

Thanks If I leave the leaf floating it will get huge with attached plantlets. Or I can take them off and have new plants
Carol

mingher

Water Gardening, it's just as entertaining as watching the fish.

Butterfly

yep it's very interesting what you can do with aquatic plants
Carol

Butterfly

This is what the leaf looks like from the top today.

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Isabella

Beautiful plant Carol That's Water Sprite? My Water Sprite looks very different. Or is it some other variety of Water Sprite?

Butterfly

I have both types of water sprite although most LFS sell the one in the second pic as Water wisteria. http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_...te&type=Search
carol

Isabella

Oh ... so you have the Indian Fern, right? This is the Water Sprite I have: http://www.plantgeek.net/images/plan...atersprite.jpg

Butterfly

Correct If you look in the small print it's also called water sprite. I have some of the same as you. If you pinch a leaf of that it will also grow roots and float
Carol

Butterfly

This is what it looks like now

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neverendingninja

Hmm, I guess I have watersprite. I always thought it was wisteria I do have some true wisteria, and was wondering why it looked different. I figured the new stuff I got had been grown emersed, and thats why it looked different.

Anyhow, the watersprite is the only plant I have that has fallen victim to hungry fish. My farlowella cat LOVES it, but he can't eat it as fast as its growing, and I like him more than my plants If it keeps him alive, by all means, he can eat it.

Btw, will the kind of watersprite I have grow like that if I float a leaf from it? I guess I could try

Butterfly

In the far right hand corner is a piece of the other type of water sprite and it's reaching for the light also. I love the roots that hang down. Fry like it also
Carol

Isabella

Darn it Carol, it looks like a plant grown in a high-tech/high-light tank! What did you do to it to make it grow so fast and so well!? Looks BEAUTIFUL!

Azahara

This thread was helpful . . . I've been looking for a kind of plant that can float, that won't die from it, and this seems to be perfect. Thank you.

Butterfly

This is an update. The mass of leaves now cover about half of the 75g

Carol

TheEssigs

Carol, is there a floating plant that will help with elevated nitrate in the water?

susitna-flower

Carol, I love this thread. Now I know I'm not the only one with a tank full of green taking over!!!

My Bala sharks eat it, breaking the water sprite up, and floating new babies all over the place. Only 4 or 5 of the plants get big enough to plant, and I have never tried that, but will now. It is great for fry, as you say. I find I don't have to do anything to save molly fry, they just spend their first month up top in the foliage.

Do you ever find you have to get rid of some though? It is as hard as "thinning out the MTS snails"