Emersed Glosso Carpet

Posts about emersed glossostigma written by torontoplantman.

Emersed glosso carpet.

Failure to illuminate glosso properly will cause this plant to grow taller instead of sideways and eventually the plant will disintegrate. Glossostigma elatinoides is best placed in the foreground as a carpet plant. Most of the time increasing light intensity and increasing co2 are enough to keep glosso low. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.

This low green plant species is native to australia and new zealand where it grows in shallow water bogs and marshes. Ph 8 2 i brought the ph back up to hard water as i was keeping the glosso with other hard water plants lights on for 12 hours a day results after successfully growing the first carpet of glossostigma under the 3000k bulbs and different water parameters i wanted to start over and now try this experiment with the right bulbs. The only issue that most aquascapers has with glosso is how to keep it growing low. Glossostigma elatinoides is a low growing aquarium carpet plant that looks like a lawn.

Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. In order to create a low lying foreground carpet glosso needs about 2 4 watts per gallon or 0 9 1 watts per liter. Glosso glossostigma elatinoides glossostigma elatinoides commonly known as glosso. Some aquascapers also use this plant all over the aquarium in iwagumi style aquascapes.

It has creeping runners and each of the green leaves is like a shape of a spatula. Please keep in mind i m in the process of clearing out many of my plants and tanks since i ll be moving to australia in early 2015.