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Help me to Identify this plant.

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#1 ·
I just found them in a lake. And took them from there :D Donno whats their name. Share you knowladge here please :) tell me everything importent about it.

 

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#5 ·
sorry i dnt no what it is but i had to cut it down every 2 weeks coz it just wudnt stop growing and growing hahaha :):):)
 
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#7 ·
yh sorry i ment it was the second plant that grows really fast :):):)
 
#9 ·
after a few days there will bee "string" coming rom the plat stems and these are the roots and they look really good if you let the roots grow :):):)
 
#11 ·
These plants carried some bugs warms. Thought I cleaned them throughly still there were some larvae and some some kind of worm !! Yak.. Yak.. Lolz. ( I have some serious problem with worms) After putting those plants in the aquarium under the light they were visible. Some of them fell and some of them were dancing by hanging on to plants. I was lucky that my Dwarf gouramis were hungry :-D Then My Gouramis came and they showed me how hungry the were :p so they took care all of them. Gouramis really liked <3 those plants.
 
#12 ·
Second plant is anacharis. It will grow fast floating or planted. It is undemanding and doesn't grow much for roots. Its kind of annoying as a floating plant because it has the ability to alter its buoyancy to move around and take advantage of the best light and will move around your aquarium.
 
#14 ·
i agree , i turned this plant over (when it was floting) and after 2 days it had turned to face the light :):):)
 
#13 ·
agreed anacharis

I doubt the worms are anything to worry about, but in general if you want to add things you found from nature they should be from a non polluted source. As far as taking things from the water, it is alot riskier then using stuff you found on land. Aquatic ecosystems crawl with micro and macro organisms most of which are not fish. They are usually crustaceans, insects(adult, larvae, and egg), mollusca, and other less derived organisms. However disease is much less common in nature then it is our fish tanks. None the less its a good idea to not take stuff from stagnant water.
 
#16 ·
The second plant is probably Elodea canadensis, commonly named "pondweed" for good reason; it will grow very fast. It is a stem plant, so you can stick the cut ends of the stems in the substrate and it will grow up and across the surface (though lower portions of the stems will probably lose their leaves) or let it float. Roots will grow along the stems. Same applies to the first plant, which as Mikaila said is hornwort, another very fast growing plant.

Elodea prefers cooler water, and in a tropical aquarium may disintegrate. It works well with goldfish, and they will eat it too.
 
#17 ·
Elodea and Anacharis are the same thing. Elodea is its proper name, there is a North American variety and a South American variety. Byron is dead on about its preference of cooler water. Anacharis is a common trade name and the name you will find for sale under most often.
 
#18 ·
My apology, I wouldn't have responded had I spotted the second page of posts:-? which I didn't.
 
#20 ·
No problem I just didn't want him to be confused and not know if he had Elodea or Anacharis. Deciphering trade names is always a pain. I bought a "green variegated amazon sword" once, it was a stratyphylum aka "Peace Lily" a terrestrial plant that can grow emerged but will barely survive if submerged and is toxic if eaten. Even if you buy something on impulse, always double check before you plant it.
 
#21 ·
So in that case if I collect any plant from sea , lake , or pond if I put it in my quarantine tank for some weeks and put some anti-bactirial medicine in it and then I plant it to my main aquarium ? If its ok then how long do I have to put it quarantine tank ?
 
#22 ·
This is difficult to answer with any degree of certainty. I don't know where you live, and even if I did I wouldn't know what "stuff" may be in the native waters. As Mikaila wisely cautioned previously, bringing plants (or items like wood, rock, fish) from native waters carries a risk. I recall comments from Rhonda Wilson, a planted tank authority who writes in TFH regularly, that any treatment likely to be successful at killing algae, snails or parasites in plants would have to be so strong that it would almost always harm the plant too. Under certain circumstances I too might try what you are suggesting, but know that it is a risk. Plants acquired from a store or online are raised in aquatic nurseries, and while they can (if kept in tanks with fish in the store) harbour parasites like ich, that can at least be dealt with easily (quarantine in a fishless tank for 2 weeks). The unknown is different.
 
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