Re: Help with plant ID

["Rachel Sandage" <rachelsor at hotmail_com>]

Gordon,

Willow hygro does change its colors depending on nutrients and light levels. 
It grows with the red/tan highlights in my low-light, low nutrient tank, and 
all green in my high light, high nutrient tank (where almost nothing shows 
any red color at all). As far as leaves growing from lower nodes, it looks 
like there were some there before you got the plant, but they were removed - 
probably because they were old and ratty. In my tanks I find that I need to 
uproot the plants and cut off the bottom fairly often, since the old leaves 
do die off leaving the bare sticks you have on your plants.

If the plant is really willow hygro, the stuff you have looks like submersed 
growth. Mine grows like crazy in my 29G low-light tank with plain old 
gravel. I now add fertilizer and CO2 to that tank, but I didn't at first, 
and it grew reall well on just Flourish Excel (carbon supplement) - but it 
needed the Excel.

-Rachel

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