thx, ampullaria?
so does this mean the deeper the pot the better right?
amp roots go downward, but they do spread outward a bit as they age.
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In most cases, yes, especially for young plants that arent making basals yet.
Do you have pics of ampullaria roots or nep roots.
Timmy, if you're considering buying an Ampullaria, please reconsider. Them bad boys' don't take kindly to any cultivation errors. They're very expensive, require a fair mount of heat/humidity, and you would be much happier with a highlander based on what you tell us about your conditions.
I think they're awesome and beautiful plants and I understand the charm as well, but they're very expensive to keep and critically more difficult than your average plant.
Start a thread on nep suggestions! We'd be glad to help man.
My clone 2 wistuba hamata grew a dense network of roots in the top layer ONLY. It basically avoided the entire regular media layer. When I repotted it...all I got was a mass of roots that was connected to the live sphagnum layer. So yeah...depends on species to species.