PETEYPLECO Posted November 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 By the way whats the common name for ECHINODORUS MURICATUS ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Radican Sword or Giant Radican Do a search on GOOGLE and you'll find it links with lots of others, quite confusing really. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 I am not familiar with that plant. I don't grow E. cordifolius (radicans) because it has a mad desire to grow like mad and go into the emersed state such that all you see in your tank are the stalks reaching for the sky. I understand this plant is even bigger and also has the same propensity for emersed growth. It is probable that the plant has been grown emersed and is a little unhappy at the moment for being dunked when the leaves are not used to being submersed. Your plant may well be drowning but new growth should be ok submersed. A problem with all Echinodorus species is that they don't like being moved and they usually grow a whole new root system, so when transplanted they go through a stage where the energy is going into establishing a root system and they are not feeding with the original roots very well, so it is probably struggling a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted November 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 This plant has been in the tank for well over six months now. It did go through the emersed stage to begin with, or maybe as you say it was because it was disturbed from my LFS's tank. As you say it does have rather large / long stalks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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