Amazon Sword Leaves Not Growing Back

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Twinklecaz

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Hi, I've noticed that when I cut dead AS leaves down (I do it to as close to the sand as I can) they never seem to grow back? I bought some little Crypts last Sat, cut a couple of leaves down and they started to show through again about 2 days later. Same with my grass, that's growing back allbeit slowly. But I never seem to see any new AS leaves/shoots. Is it just that it grows really slowly or am I doing something wrong?

I dose daily with Easy Carbo and TPN+, have a 15w T8 bulb in a 15 us gal tank.

Cheers
 
Are you sure? The leaves grow out of the middle of the plant rather than the sides. Its the second fastest growing plant I have...
 
Ohh...there's a couple growing out of the middle lol.

What happens to the outside ones if you've but them down then?
 
"if you've but them down then"?

The ones on the outside will just lean sideways more as new leaves come through... eventually I imagine in low tech tanks the leaves underneath won't get enough light and will die otherwise it'll look like those plants you see with about a million leaves :p

you should take a picture of it every couple of days for a week because this sword has been annoying you for a while hasn't it :lol:
 
All my swords annoy me lol. and my fish!

I will win eventually though! :D
 

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