Glosso Carpet Low Tech

Low maintenance dry start method for glosso.

Glosso carpet low tech.

In healthy glosso the leaves are bright green and produce bubbles readily. Given good care it will spread like a carpet across the aquarium floor. Glossostigma elatinoides glosso likes co2 fertilization and good lighting but grows very well in a low tech tank without co2. Up aqua z series led 45cm filtration.

High tech uns 90l low tech uns 60s 40c 30c. Hi everyone i m planning to do a 1 5ft planted tank in a couple of months time and i m trying to decide on which carpet plant to go for. Excel dosed daily npk dosed weekly. Anyway i was thinking of doing a ring of repens around my hardscape which will be rocks and then doing a carpet of glosso filling out the rest of the tank.

Substrate is dirt clay peat over osmocote. L40cm x w27cm x h30cm lighting. I will be re using most of the equipment i currently have. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.

Below are the tentative specs that i have in mind for this tank. I have used glossostigma elatinoides glosso often in low tech tanks as a carpet plant and it grows in very quickly. Gex l hof filled with biohomme and mr. A month later i had a full lush carpet with no trimming except around my driftwood where the glosso tries to attach itself.

My carpet on may 5th. The leaves are small tongue shaped and petiolate meaning that the leaf has a stalk that attaches to the plant stem. Dustin s fish tanks 36 174 views. Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank.

The plant has two leaves per node and branches very easily. High tech co2 aquarium plant tips. Here is a 24 day growth period with no trim. Glosso glossostigma species sunday duration.

You can cut it and replant thus making a carpet much quicker. Dhg carpet in a 3 5gal low tech planted tank.