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@Byron, I’m getting the daughter plants that you referred to. Do I just let them go or do I need to cut them lose at some point? Thanks for your help with this.
Thanks again. I just trimmed some yellow leaves but so far, so good!I tend to leave them. Like most floaters, this plant once established tends to spread rapidly, and I toss out some of it pretty much every weekly water change. Sometimes it is the older plants, sometimes not; any with yellowing leaves I tend to remove first. I suspect this plant grows so rapidly the yellowing leaves are simply due to the nutrients being used up.
Oncve the daughter plants have leaves and roots, I doubt they obtain any nutrients from the parent plant. Most aquatic plants are like this. So separating them should not cause any issues. I find the very delicate "runners" often break just from the water change activity.