[APD] Re: Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

[debunix <debunix at well_com>]

I remember a thread not too long ago where we were discussing some dwarf 
sag or e tenellus that had suddenly grown longer in one part of a tank 
than another, and that retained it's long growth pattern when moved to 
another tank.  Well,  I pulled out some dwarf sag that was overgrowing 
(from max length of about 4-5 inches to 8-10 inches, which in a 12 inch 
high tank was obviously not going to work as foreground!).  Then I put 
some nice micro-tenellus (the very fine-leaved pink-tipped variety sold 
as micro-tenellus v Amano) in the same spot.  today I notice several of 
my mostly 1-2 inch leaved plants have sprouted 4-6 inch leaves.

It is in the same relative spot in the tank (left foreground of a 12G 
nano cube tank) as it was in the tank it came from, so the relative 
amount of light that area receives should be close to identical.

Maybe there's something in that location, a hormone put out by the roots 
of the dwarf sag?  

--diane brown in st. louis


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