Water Wisteria?

[RyanR]

Is this Water Wisteria?  I’ve thought that WW is more “lacey.”  I’ve had this for about a month and it hasn’t melted or grown new leaves. 

[GoofyGarra]

That does not appear to be Water Wisteria.

[T. Payne]

Appears to be emmersed grown.

[Beach Cruiser]

Yes, mine did the same thing. Then one day, all the lower leaves started dying & new growth took off. Evidently, they favor a more "root" to green leaf ratio for replanting. Give it time & light...it should turn around. 

[Tanked]

My Water Wisteria looks like yours, most of the time. The plants are more than a year old.   In my 10 gallon, the lacy leaves are forming on the floating cuttings, and the plants that are closest to the surface, where the light is most intense.

[RyanR]

I have one stem floating to see what it will do. I was hoping that when I bought it, it was emmerssed grown and it would convert. 🤞

[Seattle_Aquarist]

Hi @RyanR,

@T. Payne is correct, that is what the leaves of Water Wisteria (Hygrophila difformis) looks like when it is grown out of the water (emersed form).  The submerged form of the leaves are the frilly almost fern-like leaves you are used to seeing.  Now that the stems are submerged the stems will absorb the nutrients in the leaves which will slowly die off and the stems will use those nutrients for roots and new submerged form leaves.  Hope this helps! -Roy

Edited May 19 by Seattle_Aquarist

[EricksonAquatics]

That looks exactly like the water wisteria I had. It doesn’t look “lacy” quite yet because it is still converting from emerged growth. Mine took an awful long time to convert, but once it does it will appear a little more like water sprite. 🙂

[RyanR]

Thanks everyone. It sounds like it’s just not happening as quickly as I hoped. No big deal. I can see roots coming off of the stems right above the eco complete going into the substrate, so it’s doing something.