Plant growing out of the tank! oops!

[Donna]

Hello, First time freshwater aquarium plants. This (I think) is a temple plant. It is growing out of the water and the part in the water looks great, but the top out of the water looks a little sad. What do I do?

Thanks very much,

Donna

in North Carolina

[Maggie]

How cool! Sorry I don't know the proper answer, but if it was my plant, I'd just watch it for a few weeks to see what it does. Or cut it a few inches down, let it float for a couple weeks, and then replant the cutting. 

[OceanTruth]

That’s a really nice looking jungle you’ve got going! I wish I had some advice for you, but I haven’t had any emergent growth yet. One day hopefully. Looks really amazing though. I hope you’re able to keep it going like that.

[Daniel]

I have a similar plant that I wild collected last fall. You can see some of the leaves look a lot like your leaves. I think it mainly a humidity issue. In the wild where I collected them, it was basically a low lying swamp/ditch with much high humidity than my house.

Here is where I got them.

 

[egruttum]

21 hours ago, Daniel said:

Here is where I got them.

I have been thinking about finding wild plants this summer as well.  Maybe I will do it for my quarantine tank.  Thanks for showing us it can be done.

[Jungle Fan]

@egruttumabsolutely can be done. When I was younger I used to go snorkeling in Texas, Florida, and South Carolina rivers to collect plants for my tanks, and look for fossils like Megalodon shark teeth. You can get all kinds of nice aquatic plants that way from Ludwigia, to Bacopa caroliniana, just make sure you check for gators first in any such locality. On one such occasion I also found out that Bullsharks can, and do swim up rivers sometime. I set an unofficial record for fastest departure from the water that day.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Jungle Fan
Failing memory

[Patrick_G]

I think the plant growing out of the water looks great. 

[Jungle Fan]

Just remembered that what I had collected back then was actually Bacopa caroliniana and to add something on the subject of plant collecting always check the endangered and invasive species list, and identify what it is you might be collecting because it could be that it isn't legal to collect in your state.