Hemianthus Micranthemoides,

[mlawson]

I recently added Hemianthus Micranthemoides to my planted nano and I am using it as a background plant. At the moment it looks identicle to my Hemianthus Callichtroides which is at the foreground. The question is, will it grow taller and more of a midground plant with strong CO2 and 4WPG or will it stay as a foreground plant? Has anyone had some experince with this plant?

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

Hi Mike, I recently added this plant to my tank as well. Like you, I have found that it is behaving more like a ground cover.

This is what I found at several different plant sites:

"...under brighter light the plant is encouraged to send off horizontal creepers with numerous side shoots that develop at the internodes. In time, a beautiful, thick, bushy cushion of green is created. Under less light or shaded areas, the stems tend to grow more upright with fewer side shoots..."

-sondra

 

[mlawson]

Hi Mike, I recently added this plant to my tank as well. Like you, I have found that it is behaving more like a ground cover.

This is what I found at several different plant sites:

"...under brighter light the plant is encouraged to send off horizontal creepers with numerous side shoots that develop at the internodes. In time, a beautiful, thick, bushy cushion of green is created. Under less light or shaded areas, the stems tend to grow more upright with fewer side shoots..."

-sondra

Thanks,

What I am trying to achieve is to have it as a bushy background plant, I read in a few places that it could be used as a foreground plant so I thought that maybe 4WPG is a little too much. Otherwise I could have just kept with my Heimianthus callichtroides!

 

[mlawson]

Anyone?

 

[G_Sharky]

I would stick with the HC for the for ground cause It look a lot better than HM IMO....I do have HM as a midground plant, however even with 3.25 wpg mine grows horizontally and it gets quite tall pretty quickly...but i've seen some tanks that have HM forground and it's looks quite good..it's your choice, but for me I would use HC as a forground....

 

[mlawson]

I would stick with the HC for the for ground cause It look a lot better than HM IMO....I do have HM as a midground plant, however even with 3.25 wpg mine grows horizontally and it gets quite tall pretty quickly...but i've seen some tanks that have HM forground and it's looks quite good..it's your choice, but for me I would use HC as a forground....

You see, I want it as a background plant in my nano, I was just worried it would grow as a foreground plant, I still want my HC for the foreground and HM for the background.