Elatine Gussonei Or Glossostigma Elatinoides?

[sandfire]

I been looking at the fabulous photos of your tanks and they really are stunning, works of art. I have been inspired to create my own landscape in one of my spare tanks.

They have made me want to do my own natural landscape style setup with just a few plant species and rock work. My currant tanks are less organised and are a little too 'jungle' looking, I admit to buying plants and finding a space for them with no real thought to the layout… bit of collector (you should see my garden or rain forest as my neighbour jokes about).

I have seen a carpet plant used in a few peoples tanks I think it is Glossostigma elatinoides or perhaps Elatine gussonei?

How many watts per gallon is recommended for this plant, which substraight do you recommend and how much CO2 would be ideal for it? Is it a fast grower in the right conditions?

Thank you

 

[sandfire]

I think it might even be Hemianthus callitrichoides after reading various posts... same questions for this plant

Thank you

 

[afroturf]

Both Glosso and HC are fast grower and would like some form of rich substrate which ever takes your fancy should be ok. In terms of light both need high lighting especially glosso 2.5 - 3 wpg should do fine but i'd certainly go for HC as it is much less demanding than Gloss and in most people opinion better looking.

When using co2 keep it constantly around 25-35 mg/l, having a fluctuating co2 level creates more of a algae risk than no co2 at all.

 

[sandfire]

When using co2 keep it constantly around 25-35 mg/l, having a fluctuating co2 level creates more of a algae risk than no co2 at all.

I been switching CO2 of a night, as I thought the fish might suffer from CO2 overdose with the plants creating it as well, is this old school thinking?

 

[nry]

CO2 being off at night is fine providing it comes back on long enough before lights-on to allow CO2 to build up to the desired level. It seems the fluctuation of CO2 is only relevant to the 'lights-on' period. Most people seem to suggest having the CO2 come back on ~1 hour before lights on, a solenoid and timer switch can handle this automatically.

 

[afroturf]

dito what nry said.

 

[sandfire]

Putting it on a hour before lights on makes a lot of sense... I gonna do that from now on!

This is a excellent forum!

Thanks guys

 

[Themuleous]

This is a excellent forum!

Hell yeh it is! Welcome on board

 

[arif_93]

they need lots of light and lots of co2 but thats not wat your fish will like so u have to balance it out or sacrifice one of the other