cheryl i had a Kliner Bar come in from an online dealer that was in very bad shape ( the leaves were closer to a Madagascar Lace than a sword!). i removed (10?) all but one leaf, disgustedly threw my $15 "plant" in a plastic bin, (was moving to boston from houston) and 6 weeks later finally put it in a tank. 3 months later it had 6-leaves. 6 months later it put out a bloom stalk that i got two nice pups from. if they are growing that well i bet you could remove ALL the leaves and the plant would just go into leaf production mode. lets see what the "experts" :) rich green _______________________________________________ AGA-Member mailing list AGA-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-member