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Well went to the large pet store to get some shrimp for my puffers, and picked up this plant, they didnt know what any of there plants where and i saw some smaller swords I think but they told me they didn't have time to look them up. Ugh, anyways I don't have a clue what it is but I got two of them for four dollars this is the bigger of the two. I did however get a tagalong which looks like it may be grass it was mostly root with a couple of little pieces of green hope it grows to something nice.



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On another note I started my 20 long yesterday and have started to cycle it with two paradise gourami anyone intrested in a planted brackish water aclimation tank. I will be raising the salinity a little bit every 2 weeks or so. If so lemmi know and I will start it up. I am going to try to purchase plants that will do ok in the brakish water but will also be ok in the freshwater as I aclimate, I will order these Wednesday if anyone has ideas on this let me know but I have a few and will make notes of them on the log if you guys want one

The plant you have is the Banana Plant (Nymphoides aquatica).
I am not certain wether or not it can tolerate brackish
conditions but I doubt it can.

check out [link=http://www.tropica.com]http://www.tropica.com" style="COLOR: #2080ff[/link] on the drop down tab
there is a brackish water category, they provide a list of
all plants that willg row in brackish water.

Also I do not believe that paradise fish can tolerate brackish
water. what are your overall intentions with the tank?

HTH,
Megil.