Growing short leaves on E. tennelus

[GaspingGurami]

My tennelus is growing longer and longer leaves. I noticed that those growing in the shade are sparse and have short leaves, so thinking that bright lights are the cause, I cut down on the intensity of my lights and to my disappointment, it caused the tennelus to grow even longer leaves. Any advise?

[merf]

erm..
u can try stunting the growth of the leaves by stunting the growth of the roots. Some plants won't grow tall leaves if they are unable to root deeply

[chua]

When there is less light, plants will grow taller as they need to fight for light.
So you should not reduce the lighting intensity.

To solve the problem, you can simply trim it.

[IUnknown]

Or you could get a plant that does what you are looking for,
Ranalisma rostrata
short E. tennelus.

[hirowen]

[quote:8487ba176c="chua"]When there is less light, plants will grow taller as they need to fight for light.
So you should not reduce the lighting intensity.

To solve the problem, you can simply trim it.[/quote:8487ba176c]
And I also heard that E.tennelus will grow pinkish when high light intensity is reached. So I don't think the plant grow tall because of high light intensity. Well I read this from other website sometimes ago, correct me if i am wrong.

[cutenk]

may i share my experienced with e. tennelus??
e tennelus can grow in several condition.
if your tank setup have a highligted the plant, the plant won' became tall.
in my tank my e tennelus can reach 25 cm in tall.(0.25 watt/ liter)
but in my other tank e tennelus only have 5 cm in tall (outdoor exposed)

the short and pinkish leaves act if your plant have enought micro element especially Fe and of course have enought light...

sorry for my worst english

[neon]

[quote:d704604e7a="cutenk"]may i share my experienced with e. tennelus??
e tennelus can grow in several condition.
if your tank setup have a highligted the plant, the plant won' became tall.
in my tank my e tennelus can reach 25 cm in tall.(0.25 watt/ liter)
but in my other tank e tennelus only have 5 cm in tall (outdoor exposed)

the short and pinkish leaves act if your plant have enought micro element especially Fe and of course have enought light...

sorry for my worst english[/quote:d704604e7a]

I am curious to grow my e.t. and I have never succeed in getting them to propogate and run. I have a 6' , chilled with 25 deg c , 5dKH, 6.6PH, high CO2 30-40 ppm, regular dosing of nutrient from Dr M pure form based on calculator. The micro from Dr M rexolin.

Please advise and thanks !

[cutenk]

am curious to grow my e.t. and I have never succeed in getting them to propogate and run. I have a 6' , chilled with 25 deg c , 5dKH, 6.6PH, high CO2 30-40 ppm, regular dosing of nutrient from Dr M pure form based on calculator. The micro from Dr M rexolin.


hi....
about tennelus.
did you add enough substrat for your tennelus root????

a few month ago i had the same problem, so i shooted nutrient near the tennelus root.
amazingly..... a few day after, the tennelus started to propagate.

but beware about the doze ...u don't want your tennelus root gets burn of course....

[prec]

my e.tenellus is always producing runners like ard 2 per wk.

2ft tank with 36W 12hrs
co2 25ppm
twice lushgro aqua and lushgro micros
1/16 teaspoon KNO3 weekly
weekly 30% water change.

hope it helps.