Strange plant in my aquarium

[Scob]

Hey!

I've got a strange problem with this weird plant on my Hemianthus callitrichoides:

Photo made by my mobile phone, so the quality isn't the best, in real colors are deep green, plants are healthy and I don't have any problems with alges.

The problem is that I simply can't get rid of it. Every time i try to pull it, I break it.
Yesterday I've tried to draw out every piece of this- you can see the result on the picture...

Other plants I have:
Eleocharis parvula
rotala indica
rotala green
heteranthera zosterifolia
anubias batteri
limnophilia aromatica
blyxa japonica
staurogyne sp.
didiplis diandra
hygrophilia polysperma


I don't even know where it cames from, but I suspect it was on rotala green when I bought it and planted in my aquarium.

Any suggestions/ideas what it could be?

 

[G H Nelson]

Hi
Don't know what it is but I like it.
hoggie

 

[Scob]

Feel free to take it

Even uncle google doesn't know what it is, I'm trying to find the answer with no results. This forum and APC are my last chances, so I belive in you!

 

[Scob]

Problem solved.

It's utricularia gibba.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

It's utricularia gibba.

I think it is, you get it a lot in with plants from Singapore. I like it, but you need to let it grow into a sub-surface wodge before it will flower. Since I took this picture it has flowered in most of my tanks. <http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16782>. I've never tried to get rid of mine, but I believe that it is difficult to eradicate.

cheers Darrel

 

[Antipofish]

I think its a TRIFFID...be afraid, LOL. Actually it gives a nice break from the uniformity of the carpet. I like it

 

[Scob]

dw1305 nice photos. Letting it grow up to the surface will be a kind of a problem- my tank is 20 inches high and U. Gibba grows in foreground, so it wouldn't look very good.I will try to plant it outside the aquarium .

PS I'm struggling with it using my comb- can be used as a small rake .

Antipofish Thanks, but it really doesn't look so well from a distance.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Letting it grow up to the surface will be a kind of a problem

It doesn't grow up all the way from the bottom, it really wants to be a sub-surface floater like Riccia.

I'm struggling with it using my comb- can be used as a small rake

"Guitarfish" suggests tweezers.
<http://www.guitarfish.org/2008/12/10/utricularia-gibba>.

cheers Darrel