White Whale
Granola bar gone bad....
Eleocharis parvula (Dwarf Hairgrass)
This is one of the most resilient and easy to keep carpet plants you can find. I had it in a tank that was left totally neglected for several months, with no water changes, fertilization or CO2. On the day I finally decided to give it some maintenance, under the thick layer of cianobacteria I found this heroic little plant surviving who knows how, and as soon as the setup was in order it began to happily spread again. Under optimal conditions it forms a beautiful carpet, dense and 'hairy', thus the common name Hairgrass. Maintenance of this carpet is quite easy since, with a natural size of only about 5 cm and good rooting in the substrate, it doesn't require regular pruning or reattaching as some other carpets, only that you keep an eye on where it's spreading to since it will easily enter even the most shaded regions of the tank. When I bought this plant (Enrico's carpet above was born out of my own shootings which I sent to friends) it was labelled as E. minima, but after some research I concluded that it should be E. parvula.
Contributed by Marcos Avila
Vesicularia dubyana (Java Moss)
Sagittaria subulata (Dwarf Sagittaria)
This is one of the most resilient and easy to keep carpet plants you can find. I had it in a tank that was left totally neglected for several months, with no water changes, fertilization or CO2. On the day I finally decided to give it some maintenance, under the thick layer of cianobacteria I found this heroic little plant surviving who knows how, and as soon as the setup was in order it began to happily spread again. Under optimal conditions it forms a beautiful carpet, dense and 'hairy', thus the common name Hairgrass. Maintenance of this carpet is quite easy since, with a natural size of only about 5 cm and good rooting in the substrate, it doesn't require regular pruning or reattaching as some other carpets, only that you keep an eye on where it's spreading to since it will easily enter even the most shaded regions of the tank. When I bought this plant (Enrico's carpet above was born out of my own shootings which I sent to friends) it was labelled as E. minima, but after some research I concluded that it should be E. parvula.
Contributed by Marcos Avila
Vesicularia dubyana (Java Moss)
Sagittaria subulata (Dwarf Sagittaria)