Glosso Carpet Aquarium

Glossostigma elatinoides is a popular choice among planted aquarium hobbyists interested in creating a lush carpet of greenery that fills their aquarium landscape.

Glosso carpet aquarium.

Picking out the right carpet plant for your aquarium is certainly tough especially when trying to select the right plants for beginners. Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom. Make sure to have ample lighting to be successful with this foreground plant.

It seems the latest thing specific to the aquarium hobby is selling seeds for carpet plants on ebay other loosely controlled sites. The leaves are small tongue shaped and petiolate meaning that the leaf has a stalk that attaches to the plant stem. Carpet plants also offer an alternative to floating or vertically growing plants in their aquarium. It needs high very high light to grow as a carpet if it doesn t then it will grow upwards towards the light instead of a carpet.

After a couple of weeks you will see the glosso spread rapidly and if you use co2 it will produce thousands of tiny bubbles. With just a few products seeds and time can have a amazing tank setup at a low cost. In healthy glosso the leaves are bright green and produce bubbles readily. It also loves ferts and co2.

Glossostigma elatinoides does well when provided full spectrum 5000 k 7000 k lighting of high intensity. Glossostigma elatinoides is commonly used as a foreground plant in aquariums. Additionally your aquarium lighting will affect every plant differently with some plants thriving in low light situations better than others. Plant several pots of glossostigma in the desired areas and then watch them expand to form a dense carpet.

It is also popular among hobbyists keeping ornamental freshwater shrimp.