You just yank it. It really is that simple.

There is an advantage to pruning the roots on your Ech. , anyway. When the
sword gets big and in peak condition, you can dig it up and prune the roots
back to a few inches. The plant will stop putting out new leaves while it
regrows it's roots. By doing that repeatedly you can keep a specimen for
years after it would otherwise have outgrown the tank.

kush

linda mar wrote in message
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I heard that especially large plants like amazon sword can make a mess of
the UGF's with root entanglements, etc... how hard are they to transplant
(by cutting it off of filter if necessary), for something like upgrading
to
a larger tank, etc? or is that too harsh a pruning to survive?

linda

"kush" wrote in message
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Sigh. Again with the UGF-bashing. I have half-a-dozen tanks and have
been
keeping planted tanks for over twenty-five years. Practically every
single
one has or has had an undergravel filter. There is no problem with using
UGF's.