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Cryptocoryne pygmaea is 6" tall (so far) in my high light tank. The crown is buried 2+" below the substrate line.

EDIT: Thank you for the spelling correction. I always forget that last 'a'.

aquaverde

Please excuse my dyslexia. The pygmaea is in the lower left corner, as indicated by the printing on the photo (corrected the text). I've had it in my tank a number of months and it is the slowest growing crypt I have.
(EDIT: the slowest growing crypt in the tank. I have emersed parva that is slower)

travis

HeyPK - I'll try to get some pictures of my crypts tonight and post them. My red wendtii (unless they're brown - I'm red-green color-blind so I could easily be wrong ) are getting big and bushy, quite a bit larger than the red wendtii you've got posted. You'll be able to better tell when you see the pics.

HeyPK

I am quite sure that my red wendtii is a different plant from the red wendtii that you and others have now. I am not even sure it is a wendtii, but it probably is. It is an interesting crypt, and, if the the light is at all good, it is a dark chocolate brown on top and a dark red-brown underneath. Right now I only have a few plants of it eking out an existence in a gallon jar that gets hardly more than room light. I am going to have to get it in a better-lit tank and multiply it up for trade or give away purposes.

travis

Here a couple of pics of my wendtii Reds. I really notice a difference in the one growing in the shade, it's growth seems to be much faster than the one growing in the full light.

magicmagni

Here's some pics of my crypts. I don't know what type they are though.

HeyPK

Thanks for all the pictures, everybody. Everybody's red wendtii (except mine) looks the same, and the plant is getting quite easy for me to recognize, now. The color of the green above, and the red on the underside seems quite consistent. I think I will start calling mine the "chocolate wendtii" just to differentiate it .

aquaverde

In a high light tank with CO2, my red wendtii has turned chocolate color on top with red below as you describe. These are so variable, I shy away from color descriptions as definitive for identification. No pic available at this time.

HeyPK

Just when I thought I had good evidence that my wendtii was different!! I guess the only way to resolve this will be to get one of the red wendtii plants that looks like the ones in the pictures that have been recently posted here and grow it side by side with mine.

aquaverde

Is there no way to positively identify a crypt through flowering?