Will Nardoo Carpet Under Low Light For Foreground?

[Duzzy]

Hi there,

will nardoo sp. carpet the foreground under low light? And is it hard/delicate to plant individual plants into the substrate?

Regards Darren

 

[fozziebear]

nardoo is a far too generic term, if you provide the sp. name of the marsilea that you want to grow, (the only two aquatic types i know are marsilea hirsuta and marsilea minuta) then you might get some more answers back.

 

[Duzzy]

Hi there,

these are the 2 sp. available to me

Marsilea drummondii
Marsilea hirsuta

Regards Darren

 

[fozziebear]

both of those species will do well in medium to high light wether they would carpet under low light i am unsure, i think they would try to reach for the light and get a bit gangly, you could try something like dwarf sagittaria. (sag, subulata) but that does get quite tall.

 

[lljdma06]

I've grown marsilea hirsuta on 1.4WPG (T5 with good reflectors). It stayed pretty small, 2 inches max, but closer to 1.5", and grew quite densly. My marsilea hirsuta behaves strangely, though. It has retained a mostly four-lobed structure, whereas most hirsuta will convert to a 1-lobed structure when under water. Could be the lower light levels that has caused this.