Glosso Carpet Low Tech

Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank.

Glosso carpet low tech.

In case i suck at describing stuff i made a shitty ms painting. 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. 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. Glosso glossostigma species sunday duration.

Lit by 24w cfl. High tech uns 90l low tech uns 60s 40c 30c. My carpet on may 5th. Up aqua z series led 45cm filtration.

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. I have used glossostigma elatinoides glosso often in low tech tanks as a carpet plant and it grows in very quickly. Dhg carpet in a 3 5gal low tech planted tank. In healthy glosso the leaves are bright green and produce bubbles readily.

Gex l hof filled with biohomme and mr. L40cm x w27cm x h30cm lighting. Dustin s fish tanks 36 174 views. A month later i had a full lush carpet with no trimming except around my driftwood where the glosso tries to attach itself.

High tech co2 aquarium plant tips. Glossostigma elatinoides glosso likes co2 fertilization and good lighting but grows very well in a low tech tank without co2. Here is a 24 day growth period with no trim. Given good care it will spread like a carpet across the aquarium floor.

I will be re using most of the equipment i currently have. Below are the tentative specs that i have in mind for this tank. Substrate is dirt clay peat over osmocote. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.

You can cut it and replant thus making a carpet much quicker. The leaves are small tongue shaped and petiolate meaning that the leaf has a stalk that attaches to the plant stem.