whew! then I'm not going crazy.
If I can snap a pic of it this evening, I'll try to confirm that the different growth appearance is in fact a branch off an R.butterfly stem.
I've got quite a few R.macrandra variants now (different combos of mini, narrow, pointed, variegated, green, super red, japan,etc) as the summer continues I'll see how stable they are or if they start to look more like each other. I have 4 variants of R.mexicana also and I'm eager to see what they do over time. The mexicanas seem to be more stable in growth pattern, at least for the two I've been keeping longest.
edit: I'd like to add that I've seen R.butterfly as R.macrandra mini 'butterfly' in places
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Originally Posted by hooha  yes, I thought it looked very much like Rotala macandra myself, but wanted to see if anyone else thought so as well  When I followed these stems down they were growing from the Rotala sp. 'butterfly' mass I had growing in the tank.
soulcommited, the stunting initially occured when I did not raise up my macro dosing in the tank. I have an automated system going, as the plant density greatly increased, I did not change my dosing amounts until recently. I also had my Pogostemon stellatus stunting in the tank, which recovered nicely when I increased the dosing amounts.
current parameters:
CO2 is continuous to bring it to over 30ppm (yellow-green on a dKH 4 standard in drop checker)
lighting is 192 watts of compact flourescent in a 55 galllon. |