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Suggestions for SA 'carpet' plants
Tomasz Nidecki wrote:
::snip::
Any other ideas, especially plants
with different leaf shape than tenellus or Lilaeopsis, and ones that
multiply very fast (under strong lighting conditions in a shallow - 20cm
- tank)?"
I put a small bunch of marsilea in my tank just to see what it would do. I
also had a thriving stand of E. tenellus going. It appeared that the tenellus
had crowded out the marsilea until I removed a section for thinning. The
marsilea had spread throughout the tenellus. I replanted the marsilea in its
own area of the tank and it is proceeding to cover the substrate. It is in a
60 gallon with 3 watts/gallon, PMDD, CO2, and 1-3 mm silica gravel. Our water
is moderately hard and the local stores report that most people here have
little success with glossostigma. I -think- I've read that Karen Randall has
reported that it needs high light to create a carpet. Rataj writes that M.
quadrifolia needs shade (p.119). ::shrug::
Tom