Glosso Carpet Low Tech

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.

Glosso carpet low tech.

In case i suck at describing stuff i made a shitty ms painting. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom. Glossostigma elatinoides glosso likes co2 fertilization and good lighting but grows very well in a low tech tank without co2. Up aqua z series led 45cm filtration.

In healthy glosso the leaves are bright green and produce bubbles readily. 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. The plant has two leaves per node and branches very easily. Dhg carpet in a 3 5gal low tech planted tank.

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. Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. Excel dosed daily npk dosed weekly. Below are the tentative specs that i have in mind for this tank.

A month later i had a full lush carpet with no trimming except around my driftwood where the glosso tries to attach itself. I have used glossostigma elatinoides glosso often in low tech tanks as a carpet plant and it grows in very quickly. I will be re using most of the equipment i currently have. L40cm x w27cm x h30cm lighting.

You can cut it and replant thus making a carpet much quicker. Substrate is dirt clay peat over osmocote. Here is a 24 day growth period with no trim. Dustin s fish tanks 36 174 views.

Gex l hof filled with biohomme and mr. Lit by 24w cfl. The leaves are small tongue shaped and petiolate meaning that the leaf has a stalk that attaches to the plant stem. High tech co2 aquarium plant tips.

Glosso glossostigma species sunday duration. High tech uns 90l low tech uns 60s 40c 30c.