ROOTS in leaves

[Nate77]

I bought a 1o gallon tank about 3-4 months ago.Set it up and just bought random plants.
My only goal was to keep a few plants alive for a few months.They are perty much thriving one turns brown on me but so be it.Some of the plants didn't stay rooted in the substrate so i just left them float they are doing well.Now i have roots from the plants that are floating rooted in some of the leaves om the plants that stayed in the substrate.

So my question is how do i remove the roots from the leaves?
Just clip the leave?

I started with 4 plants in the tank.I now have about 11 somehow.

sorry for the long post

Thanks
Nate

 

[WyldFya]

You can cut either the root or the leave. Cutting the leaf won't do much of anything. Cutting the root will spur a big growth spurt.

 

[Nate77]

Thanks i wasn't sure and didn't want to kill the plants.

 

[WyldFya]

No problem. Many plants are propegated by cutting the rhizome, or main root.

 

[evercl92]

Many plants are propegated by cutting the rhizome, or main root.

exactly. There are a fair amount of plants that propagate in this manner. Other plants break off pieces of their stems and re-root themselves in the substrate.