What is your favorite aquarium plant?

Victor Martinez wrote:

They are very pretty. Mine grew too big for the tank (110g) and I had
to remove it. Luckily, it had a smaller child nearby and I planted
that one in its place.

Some time ago I bought a huge Jade Sword from my LFS. I don't know what
I was thinking, as it was certainly too big for my tank, and cost
something like $18. Naturally, it pretty much died right away. At the
last moment I pulled out what was left and stuck it in a one-gallon jar
of water with a couple of inches of dirt at the bottom. While the main
plant didn't survive, there are at least four small child plants in the
jar now. Still don't know what I'm going to do with them, but for now
maintenance is easy.


Mine seems to have longer leaves, how much
light do you have in that tank?

It's a 20 gallon high tank, with an Eclipse hood. The hood has 30
watts. I added more lights in the gap, bringing the total to 56 watts
of compact flourescent lighting.

There are two somewhat poor photos, and an explanation, of the
additional lighting at:
www.ericschreiber.com/aquarium/tank1.html


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Eric Schreiber
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