Best And Cheapest Place For Glossostigma Elatinoides

[dazsmith69]

hi im looking for a foreground plant and have seen so much sucess with Glossostigma elatinoides , can anyone point me in the right direction to a website where i can order it online in the uk? and how much i should be paying?

thanks Darren

 

[Themuleous]

This is the best place

[URL="http/www.thegreenmachineaquatics.com/mal...a"]http/www.thegreenmachineaquatics.com/mal...a elatinoides[/URL]

Sam

EDIT - Glosso is never a cheap plant.

 

[Wolfenrook]

EDIT - Glosso is never a cheap plant.

I have to disagree there http/www.aquaticplants.eu.com/acatalog/M...IAL_OFFERS.html.

Be quick though as it's his closing down sale.

Ade

 

[MoondustBob]

This is the best place

<a href="http/www.thegreenmachineaquatics.com/mal...a" target="_blank">http/www.thegreenmachineaquatics.com/mal...a elatinoides</a>

Sam

EDIT - Glosso is never a cheap plant.

Maidenhead can get glosso in much larger portions for £3.50 a pot.

 

[saintly]

maidenhead, order it. make sure its fresh.not there usual algae infested specimens. aquafleur are on par with tropica and in some cases better.

 

[dazsmith69]

thanks for the replies, does this plant require any special conditions at all, is it a hard plant to keep without a C02 system?

is there an alternative plant that grows across the floor of the aquarium if this one has special demands?

thanks Darren

 

[Wolfenrook]

Glosso needs a lot of light, and prefers CO2 addition. A plant that is similar but supposedly easier to grow is heminathus callitrichoides 'cuba' usually referred to as HC Cuba, but like gloss if it doesn't have enough light it will grow upwards rather than outwards.

Easiest carpet plant in my experience is good old dwarf hairgrass.

Ade

 

[MoondustBob]

Glosso needs a lot of light, and prefers CO2 addition. A plant that is similar but supposedly easier to grow is heminathus callitrichoides 'cuba' usually referred to as HC Cuba, but like gloss if it doesn't have enough light it will grow upwards rather than outwards.

Easiest carpet plant in my experience is good old dwarf hairgrass.

Ade

HC is nothing like glosso. Nothing at all.

Marsilea hirsuta is similar, and much easier to grow than glosso, but still may require decent lighting and co2.

 

[Wolfenrook]

Glosso needs a lot of light, and prefers CO2 addition. A plant that is similar but supposedly easier to grow is heminathus callitrichoides 'cuba' usually referred to as HC Cuba, but like gloss if it doesn't have enough light it will grow upwards rather than outwards.

Easiest carpet plant in my experience is good old dwarf hairgrass.

Ade

HC is nothing like glosso. Nothing at all.

Marsilea hirsuta is similar, and much easier to grow than glosso, but still may require decent lighting and co2.

Sorry, but I think you have your plants confused. When grown in adequate light both gloss and HC Cuba grow in a carpet, with small roundish leaves, and are green. Hmmm, seems similar to me.

As to Marsilea hirsuta, this is COMPLETELY different, looking nothing like either glosso or HC Cuba, and usually been referred to as 4 leaf clover plant.

I think that you need to brush up on your plant identifications before you start arguing with people.

Ade

 

[MoondustBob]

HC has leaves around 2-3mm in size, whereas glosso leave are closer to 10+mm in size.

Marsilea hirsuta, when fully carpeted resembles glosso, although it is much easier to grow. Oliver Knott likes to use this plant in larger aquariums where flow and co2 demands are greater.

 

[lljdma06]

All three are quite different.

HC is a proper stem plant with leaves in a vertical form, very similar to it's larger cousin, Hemianthus micranthemoides. It can become bushy like glosso and under good conditions displays creeping properties.

Glosso is classified as a creeping shoot plant, as multiple shoots often are born on a single stem. It can also be treated as a stemplant, since the stem can be cut and the individual plantlets preserved.

Marsilea is classified as a creeping shoot plant but it is also classified as a fern with a proper rhizome. New "stems" emerge from the terminal point of a rhizome, in a fashion similar to anubias. Cutting the rhizome into individual plantlets is not advised unless the plantlets are developed enough to have roots and their own terminal point which develops into their own rhizome. Again, similar to an anubia.

I have used Marsilea as a ground cover without CO2.

Good luck with your glosso, I found it kind of messy, but a great plant to work with.

llj

 

[Dave Spencer]

I`m with Moondustbob on this. Marsilea sp resembles Glosso very closely, but it is less demanding in terms of light and CO2, easier maintenance and grows less dense than Glosso.

Marsilea is multi lobed when emersed, and single lobed when it is immersed, which is when it resembles Glosso (although Llj seems to be able to grow it multi lobed immersed). I use Marsilea quite a lot as a Glosso substitute.

Dave.

P.S. I grow a lot of HM and HC, and they are very different looking plants.

 

[Wolfenrook]

Daz, do yourself a favour and do a google image search for each, and you will see where I am coming from.

Ade

 

[dazsmith69]

thanks for the replies again, ive gone for the hemianthus callitrichoides, two bunches, looks very good,

hopefully itll grow like this