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Hi,

I received some Hemianthus callichtroides which I tried planting strand by strand with tweezers in my tanks but I just can't seem to get it to stay planted. I really would like to see how this plant goes in my tank, but I just can't get it to stay down long enough to get established. I've gotten so sick of it floating around and blocking up my filter intakes that I started looking for another method.

I was looking at trying a similar method to that sometimes used with riccia (ie a mat of sorts - see this link for an example).

Has anyone else tried growing HC like this? Was it successful?

G_T

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That the same as a Java Moss wall... It works but it doesn't fill in you will see the mesh. If you want it one the ground per say, you could try and pin it down, and later remove the pins after it attachs to the sub.

Djrichie
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That the same as a Java Moss wall

Yep, pretty much - I plan on doing a similar thing with java moss in a different tank and I'm fairly confident of success with that one, but I had not seen this method used with HC so I don't know if it will work with this species. I will be laying the mesh on the substrate and probably holding it down with some river stones, or a bit of substrate on the edges of the mesh.

G_T



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