adrielme

I've been seeing this plant for sale on ebay. Anyone have any experience with it?

ruki

I have this plant. I picked it up from aquaBid.

It's a vallisneria that stays really small. In my tanks where Vallisneria spiralis gets over 20 centimeters, the V. petite stays under 6 centimeters.

It's also different than V. nana which tends to stay really thin but still grows over 12 cm tall at times.

V. petite seems to want a richer substrate than the more common varieties and species. It doesn't quickly from a dense carpet unless I use something like Eco Complete.

guppylover

Hi Ruki. How is your pigmy vallisneria? is it still that dwarf like 6 cm.? because i really want to buy some of these. Thanks.

terrestrial_man

I had something like this years ago and thought that it was a sagittaria species.
A Sagittaria teres or as a variety of Sagittaria graminea. ??

ingg

I have this plant!

I've been trying to ID it for ages, was thinking it was some kind of sag all along.

Doesn't matter what lighting, it stays short, no mroe than 3", and the leaves curl back towards the substrate at the tips.

bratyboy2

does anyone have a pic of this plant?

Bert H

Are you sure it's not a Sag? The '...leaves curling back towards substrate...' sure sounds like dwarf Sag.

ingg

Lemme go get a pic.

I kept thinking it was sag - but I also get told that sag will get tall in varying, lower light levels, and this stuff NEVER gets taller, no matter the condition.

I've kept it in low light, medium light, low tech, excel added only, co2 added, ferts, no ferts, tons of scenarios, and it is always the exact same plant.

Lemme go get a quick pic

ingg

ingg

I've been selling it for months inside my club as dwarf sag..... but everyone that sees how it behaves says it doesn't behave like sag, never getting tall, etc.