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	best plant to take over substrate
BeastKeeper Big Fish Posts: 444 Kudos: 389 Votes: 47 Registered: 27-Apr-2004	i have been looking at takashi amano's tanks and one thing that i liked alot was you can never see gravel. having plants all over the bottom almost as if a blanket of grass in my tank. what plant will acheive that affect? 20 tall usg -40w nutri lamp -flourite plant substrate -hagen plant food -co2 -proquatics 170 -ph-7.8 -78* thanks
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Dakafall Banned Posts: 218 Kudos: 224 Votes: 7 Registered: 14-Nov-2004	dwarf-hair grass should work 4 u, this plant is a high-very high light plany, requires CO2 and they can also live in sand
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:43
BeastKeeper Big Fish Posts: 444 Kudos: 389 Votes: 47 Registered: 27-Apr-2004	i just read about glosso and micro swords, will they work?
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whetu Mega Fish Posts: 900 Votes: 63 Registered: 31-Jan-2003	Glosso is very high-maintenance as a ground cover and micro swords might not be fine enough to cover the substrate completely. I'd go with the hair grass. What kind of fish do you have? My fish are the biggest challenge with keeping ground-cover rooted as they like to pull them up and eat the roots!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:43
joe fishy Fish Addict Posts: 605 Kudos: 1355 Votes: 65 Registered: 21-Apr-2003	You may want to use drifts of a couple of easy, hardy plants. A combo of Dwarf Sag, Crypt wendti, and Anubias nana would grow easily in the tank, and present a variety of textures as well.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:43
Falstaf Fish Addict Posts: 785 Kudos: 1211 Votes: 196 Registered: 12-Feb-2004	Lilaeopsis Novae-zelandiae has worked for me, it needs a lot of light and co2 and it's almost always a victim of algae but if you get though all those hurdles it will cover the substrate and look great. Also Hudson Sagitaria
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Curare Enthusiast Posts: 196 Kudos: 130 Votes: 0 Registered: 23-Jun-2004	I'm not particularly impressed with Lillaeopsis anymore. I'm going to try riccia this time, see how I go with that.
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Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Riccia is one of the hardest of the aforementioned plants to keep, apparently. They must be constantly pruned, shined with heavy lighting and C02, plus, they constantly break free of the substrate and need to be retied.
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Curare Enthusiast Posts: 196 Kudos: 130 Votes: 0 Registered: 23-Jun-2004	hmmm, okay, good call there. and I should point out that I got it wrong, I wasn't thinking riccia, I was thinking dwarf hairgrass, eleocharis. I am, to a certain extent limited to what I can get. all I've seen available to me here in Western Australia is Eleocharis, Lillaeopsis and A.nana. I've got 120w over my new 55 gal so I figure it's about right. Your thoughts? Last edited by Curare at 08-Dec-2004 00:53
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