bacopa monnieri flower

[uberunce]

one of my bacopa monnieri thats about 8-9 inches started to sprout a flower that was purple. it bloomed for a day or 2 but wilted and now it looks like what is left is just the bulb of a flower.
how do i keep the flowers from wilting and is there any way to induce more?
it is quite possible that a cherry shrimp did something because i saw one sitting in the flower.

 

[Lupin]

Cherry shrimps don't do anything to plants. Any pics of your setup? Is the area humid?

 

[three-fingers]

If you saw a cherry shrimp resting on it, the I presume it was underwater, and that will be why it died. The flowers are supposed to be aerial, curious it flowered under water.

When I get flowers, usually they wilt and due because they either dry out with open top tanks, or with burn on the light tube in hooded tanks.

 

[cassharper]

My anubias start to bud and bloom from time to time, but will die since they are too far underwater. In their natural habitat they grow just a few inches below the surface, and once the buds start shooting they will most likely hit air. If you place it closer to the surface this will happen eventually, but be prepared to see a few not make it before you succeed. If it does work you will have to close the top and keep it humid above water.

 

[uberunce]

completely forgot about this post. some info about the tank, its 6500k T8, a 25g long. theres no substrate but the bacopa monnieri is potted in gravel. i have a sheet of acrylic for the top except it doesnt cover the whole thing because of my HOB. the one with the flower is about 8-9 inches but the flower is about 4-5 inches from the water line.

 

[three-fingers]

Yep, afraid the flowers are dyeing just because they are underwater.

If you notice the leaves at the top of your plant are different from the ones at the bottom? And the section of the plant with the flower is the same section with these leaves.

The ones at the bottom look like the aerial leaves, and the growth at the top is submersed growth.

Loads of common aquarium plants are grown out of the water in plant nurseries, so it's quite common to see this kind of growth at the bottom of the plant.

I've seen Bacopa monnieri growing emersed in a turtle tank, and it has flowers and leaves that look just like that .

Your plant just hasn't adapted fully to being underwater, once the stems reach the surface and start to grow out, you will probably get nice little flowers then .