Plant Id Please Even Jimboo Doesn't Know This One

[cuprajake]

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could you please help guys

thank to jimboo for the pic


cheers jake

 

[mlawson]

Hard to tell...

Possibly Ceratopteris thalictroides ...

 

[ted28]

Hard to tell...

Possibly Ceratopteris thalictroides ...

I'd second that. The center plant is Ceratopteris thalictroides.

 

[cuprajake]

cheers guy's we knew the cera bit but were unsure as to the rest

jake

 

[frozenbarb]

a very big watersprite

 

[jimbooo]

thats it, i told you it was cera..... blah blah. hehe.

it was labeled as water sprite in the LFS (so scrub my original suggestion that it may be water wysteria).

thanks for helping out on that one guys. i know how to grow plants but never claimed to know what it is i'm growing!! ha ha.

i was suggesting this as a good starter plant that may look a little better than a tank full of hornwort. the pic here is from the very early days of my rio180. i had just upgraded light but still had nutrafin co2. i just remember it grew stupidly fast and doesn't need replanting once pruned.

if jake put 4 or 5 of those in his tank i'm assuming that would do as good a job as a ton of stem plants with regard to stripping the nutrients out of the water. what do you guys think?? it's been a while since i set up a tank from scratch.

 

[mlawson]

I only knew it because my friend recently got it.

 

[Castellop123]

Cheers...

 

[cuprajake]

the tank is 42"x20"x14" so large,

is it a floting plant intended to be tide off to a rock or do you actually plant this one into the substrate?


jake

 

[ted28]

the tank is 42"x20"x14" so large,

is it a floating plant intended to be tide off to a rock or do you actually plant this one into the substrate?


jake

Plant it in the substrate, with root tabs or nutritious bottom. I have it floating but it looks far better planted in the substrate. I don't have it planted in the substrate because it started to look like a tree in my low light tank. Long stems with the leaves floating on the surface blocking light for plants below.