Plant Id Please!

[Channti]

Hey guys!
Can anyone give me an ID on this plant:


Sold as sag something or other...

Had lots and lots of white roots, should have taken a pic of that prior to planting it. Came highly recommended for a low-light low-tech setup by the Fish room manager....

Thanks!

 

[three-fingers]

Looks like Dwarf Sag, brilliant stuff, only problem with it for me is it is too easy to grow! It does well in very low light IME, I grew it very easily in a 30" tank with just an 18w T8 tube that was years old.

Looks like the manager at least had a little experience with plants, good buy .

It will probably grow taller, to the surface of the water and may even flower for you .

Heres mine flowering:

 

[Channti]

Looks like Dwarf Sag, brilliant stuff, only problem with it for me is it is too easy to grow! It does well in very low light IME, I grew it very easily in a 30" tank with just an 18w T8 tube that was years old.

Looks like the manager at least had a little experience with plants, good buy .

It will probably grow taller, to the surface of the water and may even flower for you .

Heres mine flowering:

To the SURFACE of the WATER?!
It was sold to me as a foreground plant.
My tank is 20" high!

 

[Biulu]

I have sagitarria platophylla and it looks alot similar to this one. Yes, it starts out as a foreground plant, but I have a similar tank like yours and some of the plants grew at least 30 cms high under low light (like yours)

 

[Channti]

30cm high?!
*sigh*
Is there NO foreground plant that STAYS a foreground plant for a low-light tank? (with the exception of anubias, which costs an arm and a leg here!)

 

[ian]

in a low light, no c02 tank it should stay around the 2-3 inches.

 

[RadaR]

It is a foreground plant.

If your plants get too tall for your liking then just trim them, jeez. Sharp pair of scissors, job done.

in a low light, no c02 tank it should stay around the 2-3 inches.

I agree. But left long enough (months and months) it will gradully get taller.

As three-fingers has said, it's a great plant.

 

[PDSimon]

What about eleocharis parvula? Takes its time though!

 

[Channti]

I'll just have to give this plant a haircut everytime I come home from school. It ranges from 2" to 5" tall right now The fish seem to love it.

*sigh*
Oh well.

It's cute, and it works really well. Hopefully I have as much success with it as everyone else did. It'd be nice to take some chunks of it for my 15 gallon when I leave at the end of the month.