Help With An Id

[jayjay]

Please help me, i'm not sure if this plant is aquatic if it's not I think I have a reason for the aenorbic (sp?) pockets forming in my tank after 4 days

It has green pinted leaves with a white edging on each leaf.

Cheers

 

[discusmad]

Its not a ''true'' aquatic plant, after a couple of months it will start to die away

 

[Themuleous]

Non-aquatic for sure. An easy test is to hold it upright, if it it able to hold itself up its non-aquatic. True aquatic plants cant support their own weight as the are used to having the water do it for them (lazy gits if you ask me!) This is a very general rule, I think ludwigia is able to stand upright out of water and possibly some others too, but its a good rule of thumb

The varigated leaves (i.e. those with white edges) is also another sign of a non-aquatic.

Sam

 

[jayjay]

I fed it to my severums lol. Cheers people.

 

[Anita]

Hi

As the others have said, that's not a true aquarium plant.

But it shouldn't have given you anaerobic pockets in your substrate after 4 days.

What substrate do you have, also how often do you syphon the bottom?

Anita

 

[jayjay]

Silver sand which was put in on saturday, yesterday was tuesday when I had the pockets. I do 90% weekly changes on the tank which includes gravel vac.

 

[Jen]

That seems like an aweful lot of water to take out at once.... is there a specific reason for that? Just curious.

 

[jayjay]

Only a small tank, 3.5g. here it is

Only 2 small (1cm-1.5cm) killi's in there aswel, so i'm feeding alot regulary and also one of my 4g buckets takes all the water out in one go lol so I do over half a bucket in a about 1 minute the time it takes to vaccum up all the muck.

 

[Jen]

Ah. that makes sence then. thanks.