Brazilian pennywort growing out of tank

[Fishfur]

I’ve been wishing it would grow emersed on its own and finally, it is!

I think it would look pretty great if a lot more of it grew emersed so I’m hoping to encourage it. I’d really like to get the variegated version to grow emersed - I’m hoping the variegation will be stronger that way.

But the green one is definitely working on growing emersed in a couple of places.

 

[A201]

Speaking for those of us lacking green thumbs, very impressive.

 

[Fishfur]

Speaking for those of us lacking green thumbs, very impressive.

Very kind of you to say so .

 

[Hellfishguy]

Mine does the same thing, but only in the winter. It’s somehow able to find its way out of small openings in the cover.

 

[kallililly1973]

I’ve been wishing it would grow emersed on its own and finally, it is!

I think it would look pretty great if a lot more of it grew emersed so I’m hoping to encourage it. I’d really like to get the variegated version to grow emersed - I’m hoping the variegation will be stronger that way.

But the green one is definitely working on growing emersed in a couple of places. View attachment 916036View attachment 916037

A nice piece of spider wood would look pretty awesome all wrapped up in it if it continues to grow like that.

 

[Fishfur]

It’s growing quite fast & 3 other growing points have poked up out of the water. The largest has new shoots coming at each node.

 

[kallililly1973]

It’s growing quite fast & 3 other growing points have poked up out of the water. The largest has new shoots coming at each node.

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What size tank is that?

 

[Fishfur]

What size tank is that?

That is a very small one - 6” tall & wide, 20” long.

 

[Fishfur]

The branch largest branch that’s sprouting was over an inch long this morning. It was barely begun yesterday morning. That’s awfully fast growing.

 

[Fishfur]

It is growing so quickly I can almost see it elongate in real time - there’s always noticeable progress in 24 hours.

 

[Fishfur]

There are several more growing points starting to climb out of this tank - and the first two are flourishing.

 

[Fishfur]

I think this sneaky pennywort has been taking steroids behind my back!

Every node that’s still wet that is near the surface has an abundance of robust (robust for a pennywort) roots 3” or more in length & new growing tips are popping up out of the water all over the place.

I’ve never had it grow like this before - it must like what it’s been getting.

When I lifted a mass of it out of the tiny long tank to grab some for the long lie tank I just moved, I discovered it has a ton of growth underwater too. Didn’t get a pic - phone was on the charger & on the other side of the room.

Try to get one tomorrow. It was a pretty impressive mass considering that in December, all there was of it were half a dozen short stem sections with undersized leaves and they all looked weak & sad & a bit pale. Plus they were tangled up with the hair algae. They were barely hanging on - existing but not growing much at all.

After the scuds cleaned off the algae, I put them all in this tiny long tank to keep them from getting reinfested with algae and they just seemed to take off.

The only fert’ they get is a little Flourish. I think the light on this tank suits them a lot better than the 8000K they had in the long low tank. Here’s hoping they carry on this way after moving back to the long low tank.

 

[Mosspearl]

I love pennywort. This is from a previous tank...it crawled everywhere! And it flowered! I wish you much success with yours.