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Title: Plant ID
Post by: Aiglos on February 15, 2006, 09:48:38 PM
Can I have some help IDing some of these plants...

The first plant I know is some type of hygrophilia but am not sure which variety

the other two I have no idea what they are, I purchesed them from a local fish store and the owner didnt know what they were, both plants died and I thought they were goners but they both came back to life sprouting from dead leaves.
Title: Plant ID
Post by: BigDaddy on February 15, 2006, 09:55:53 PM
You have your standard green hygro, some ludwigia for plant 2 and plant 3 looks like rotala rotundifolia
Title: Plant ID
Post by: PaleoFishGirl on February 15, 2006, 10:00:37 PM
I'm not sure what that big white fish is in your tank, chewing on your rotala??  ... in the bottom pic I mean  :wink:
Title: Plant ID
Post by: Aiglos on February 15, 2006, 10:05:38 PM
Bigdaddy: thank you.  I knew you would get it . Is there any thing about plants that you do not know ? :)
Title: Plant ID
Post by: Roop on February 15, 2006, 10:48:00 PM
i find this is good for id'ing most plants. http://www.tropica.com/plant_print.asp

i can now id aquatic plants in my sleep (but only in my wet dreams).
Title: Plant ID
Post by: Roop on February 15, 2006, 10:49:33 PM
oh yeah, add some iron enriched plan grow for a week. it should turn all of those plants to a nice red once the reach the surface.
Title: Plant ID
Post by: Aiglos on February 15, 2006, 10:51:24 PM
Good link Roop;

I still have trouble ID'ing plants.  I guess once I keep more of them and get more experianced it will come to me.  

Even looking at the plants KNOWING what they are I still don't see it in alot of cases