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[malawiman85]

Hey all,

I want to try and carpet the foreground of one of my tanks.
After something low maintenance, easy to grow that can take a bit of neglect every now and then. Will use DIY CO2 and buy whatever lighting is required.
Quite like the look of dwarf hairgrass. Anyone used something else successfully?

[Westie]

I've got dwarf hairgrass and it isn't happy. Since adding injected co2, it still hasn't picked up, so I wouldn't bother without co2

[Mattia]

Liliaeopsis is quite easy to grow under good lighting

[malawiman85]

Cheers. I think im going to set up a new tank in the next couple weeks and spend some money on it rather than my usual tighter than a fish's .... .... approach.

[Leichardti]

Can get Lilaeopsis Braziliensis at Woodvale Lily Farm, where all the small plants, floating plants and reeds / rushes are. Staurogyne Repens grows fine without Co2, so does Marsilea Hirsuta, but is very fiddly and doesn't do well if regularly attacked or pulled out.

[Jamievb]

Malawiman did you try the carpeting. I just got some Lilaeopsis and I'm wondering how it will go with my cichlids? The clown loaches are loving it at the moment.


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[malawiman85]

Hi mate I got some Lil but it didnt really take off. I reckon lighting was the issue...

Looked great though all the same.

[Delapool]

I haven't had much luck with carpeting plants. Hair grass grew slowly under low light but tended to get destroyed by the loaches every so often. Narrow-leaf val grew more as carpeting plant under high light. Under lower light I've noticed it tends to head for the surface more.

Edited by Delapool, 19 April 2016 - 10:03 AM.

[malawiman85]

Any Glosso masters out there?

[Delapool]

Any Glosso masters out there?

Probably working second jobs to pay for their lights....

[Graeme1]

Any Glosso masters out there?

Glosso isn't hard

High light and co2 injection and you can almost watch it grow.