Glosso Carpet Low Tech

This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.

Glosso carpet low tech.

Here is a 24 day growth period with no trim. Dhg carpet in a 3 5gal low tech planted tank. L40cm x w27cm x h30cm lighting. Low maintenance dry start method for glosso.

You can cut it and replant thus making a carpet much quicker. Lit by 24w cfl. Glossostigma elatinoides glosso likes co2 fertilization and good lighting but grows very well in a low tech tank without co2. Anyway i was thinking of doing a ring of repens around my hardscape which will be rocks and then doing a carpet of glosso filling out the rest of the tank.

High tech uns 90l low tech uns 60s 40c 30c. Glosso glossostigma species sunday duration. The leaves are small tongue shaped and petiolate meaning that the leaf has a stalk that attaches to the plant stem. I have used glossostigma elatinoides glosso often in low tech tanks as a carpet plant and it grows in very quickly.

High tech co2 aquarium plant tips. Below are the tentative specs that i have in mind for this tank. My carpet on may 5th. Gex l hof filled with biohomme and mr.

The only other experience i have with glosso was in my low light low fert shrimp tank and the glosso grew straight up like a normal stem plant. A month later i had a full lush carpet with no trimming except around my driftwood where the glosso tries to attach itself. I will be re using most of the equipment i currently have. Hi everyone i m planning to do a 1 5ft planted tank in a couple of months time and i m trying to decide on which carpet plant to go for.

Dustin s fish tanks 36 174 views. Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. Up aqua z series led 45cm filtration. The plant has two leaves per node and branches very easily.

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