Let the shoot, shoot up. :)

That way it will join shoots gobb;ing up Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. ;)

I don't know why sometimes those plants just get bigger in a bunch and other times they send out long vines. Yours was a vine I guided from the fish tanks to a 3 gallon, one time, turtle bowl. The reason I did that was I wanted them to develop aquatic (submersed) roots as opposed to land, terrestrial or emersed roots. I even cheated a bit and put a little Miracle Grow in there. Please note, I would never use that fertilizer (with all of it's nitrogen) in a fish tank!!!

I was tempted to use a rooting powder, but resisted because who knows when those hormones (?) might wash or leach into an aquarium? Aquatic roots for those plants are long and stringy. They can make kind of a neat ball - stylin' ! Terrestrial roots are blunt things which look like very stout, stiff, green or tan, snubnosed earthworms.

You've seen those plants if you've been to a restuarant with hanging plants. If you can't recall them, it's time to grab your significant other and go looking. :)

(You know you are a fish head when you are standing in a waiting line scoping their plants and glassware to see what could be used in a tank.)

A lot of our house plants are from under the rainforest canopy. They can endure temporary flooding or very filtered light. Grab a book on the Amazon (Time-Life has a good one at the library) and look at the tree trunk, forest floor photos.)

Tried to double check the plant's spelling in  Christel Kasselmann's Aquarium Plants (c. 2003) which is the new "Bible" of aquarium plants. They don't even include it among aquarium plants! Finally found the spelling in the old Bible of Aquarium Plants - Karel Rataj's Aquarium Plants; Their Care, Identification and Ecology (c. 1977). Both books are "keepers" by the way.

If you take a cutting of the plant and put it in wet soil, it should develop land roots. I find it a little harder rooting them in water and either lead the vines into another tank or the bowl or bucket on the fishroom floor.

We have a 55/40 gallon over and under in the living room with Spaths running between the tanks. Periodically we must trim them back (before the TV disappears). A couple of weeks ago I took a bunch of cuttings and tried to root them in a small tank. It was then that we noticed that the living room plants had spider mites, not a visitor here for ages.

The infected starters got tossed outside one frosty night. The tank is exiled, awaiting bleaching. I've been looking for a biological control place which sells western predatory mites (to eat the spider mites) but the one in Michigan I checked with had either folded or closed for the winter.

I'd be very grateful if anyone knows of a place open with those western predatory mites. With this unseasonably warm weather, they might be able to mail them here - even in mid-November!

The plants in the fishroom are ok. Little is being carried casually back and forth from the living room.