Re: Java Fern

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Java Fern
From: Liisa Sarakontu <lsarakon at hila_hut.fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 21:38:22 +0300 (EET DST)
In-Reply-To: <199506190739.DAA13582 at looney_actwin.com>

Erik Olson wrote: 
> I was cleaning out my tank yesterday, when I noticed that some of the roots
> of my Java Ferns are sprouting little new java fernlets.  Not the 
> rhizome, but the little hairy roots coming out of the rhizome.  I've 
> never seen this happen before.  Is this common?  What's happening here?

Erik,
I have seen that happening in my tanks too. I think that Java
Fern just is able to grow a new fernlet from any part of itself, when
the conditions are right. I don't remember that those baby ferns have
ever grown to adult size, but Java Fern always grows very slowly in my 
poorly lit low-tech tanks. 

Liisa Sarakontu                     INTERNET:    lsarakon at hila_hut.fi
Helsinki University of Technology   WWW homepage http://www.hut.fi/~lsarakon/