Guitar is there for size comparison... that plant is over 60cms high! I just took it out of my tank, its a marbled sword

Sorry for the sideways pic!

One healthy looking plant, how highs your tank.

Thanks. my tank is 50cms high, most leaves were fully out of the water! The pic in my avatar is of one of the many flowers this plant created

so what are you planning to do with the plant?

oh forgot to say that. im giving it to a mate. I dont want it anymore, and he did, so its his :lol: Hes collecting it tomoro so i pulled it out tonight so i can soak it in Pottasium permanganate for a little while to make sure i dont give him algae and because i wont have time to do all that stuff in the morning

oh bugger - and here I thought you might be offering to the highest bidder

haha, sorry but no. Would be a bit of a hassle to send though anyway!

good old MH lights huh

That is why I don't grow them now. They will grow like that with flouros as well. They are a hybrid with cordifolius I think and grow the same way. Unless you have an open top tank all you see from the front are a bunch of stalks, but the varigation is quite distinct on the emersed growth.

That is why I don't grow them now. They will grow like that with flouros as well. They are a hybrid with cordifolius I think and grow the same way. Unless you have an open top tank all you see from the front are a bunch of stalks, but the varigation is quite distinct on the emersed growth.

I second that. Liked it for a while, but even the fish got tired of only looking at stalks

Nice sword evil!!

Mine was behaving normally until recently when I added Potassium to the tank, now I have about 10 flower buds (most out of the water) and about 6 or so new marble swords. Its spending all its energy reproducing so the main plant itself is 'bleh'.

It was no where near 60cm, more like 15cm.

Those plants are a bit like lotus and banana plant in that they have a submersed form and emersed form. They remind me of red eared turtles---they are cute when young. I have seen them a monstrous size with all emersed growth and spectacular marbling grown with flouros at Redwood Aquatics.

good old MH lights huh

Nope, flouros

Yer, i got rid of it cos im sick of just stalks....

Hi All

I have seen some of the "AMAZON SWORDS" in the wild; some years ago :oops: but believe me, what is now "Cordifolius" was RADICANS back then and everybody wanted one (and at about (2pound, 10 shillings) someone made plenty)and they got one.

But the reality is that I saw them on the river banks in Florida 6 foot tall with leaves the size of a table cloth.

As Alan4304 says; beautiful when they are small.

I think I was one of the first selling E. martii back then and was getting $25 each. Those must have been the days--- We were getting more for live tubifex than top grade steak. Why am I not driving a merc?

Amazonian you are showing your age. I used to drive under a railway bridge on the way home from work and it had grafiti on it. "Give the working man a decent wage--- 20 pound a week."

I have a spare 20 pounds if anyone wants it!!

Them were the days when a quid was worth a quid.

Hahahahaha.

You're right Alan????? :lol:

But I still like to think of it as:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I CAN REMEMBER WHEN; "A QUID WAS WORTH TWO DOLLARS" and there was value in the money.