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my crypts are growing realy well, and now i have several stocks coming from them, at first i thought flowers, but as tme went on i started having doubts, i have never seen these on any pics of crypts and i was just wondering what they were, and they are having trouble staying afloat, err keeping their "heads" above water, a few have relyed on some floating plants, but i raised the water because i was down 3 gallons and it was badly in need of a top off, and now they seem to be struggling, what r these? and how do i care for them?

Are you sure it's a crypt ? While cyrpts will sometimes flower, like anubias they do so underwater.

It sounds to me a lot like the flowering of an Aponongen Crispus. Is the the tip kind of a bullet shape with a white coloring ? If it is is the bullet tip slowly stretching out and becoming whiter with tiny flowers ?

If it's like the above then I would say you have a Crispus rather then a Crypt. Any pics?

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hey benstaf according to google, there is no such thing as that plant i looked up pics of the name i mentioned, and got the pic of the plant, just with no shoots

Sorry fishy,

Wrong spelling, never any good at latin

Aponogeton Crispus

You can find information HERE

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Some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.

hmm, the plant looks simmliar, but mine has a few red leaves too, and the flower things are in a 'u' shape, and they eac have like 5+ shoots and there are more on the way what do i do about the current?

Definitely sounds like an apono to me. There are many different types of aponogeton so yours may not look exactly like that. Mine send up stems regularly that split in half to have 2 sets of little flowers. I don't do anything special for them and sometimes I get so annoyed I chopped them all off. They're back in a few days. They've even grown up right under my penguin 330. Sometimes they grow out of the tank and on occasion they seed. You could move the plant to an area of less current if you wanted but otherwise I'd just leave it alone. It's probably quite happy right there if it's sending up flowers.