Emersed Glosso Carpet

Posts about emersed glossostigma written by torontoplantman.

Emersed glosso carpet.

It can grow emersed or submersed in muddy and flooded areas on lakeshores and river banks in its natural habitat. Glosso is a versatile ground cover plant for forming dense mats over the foreground of tanks. Most of the time increasing light intensity and increasing co2 are enough to keep glosso low. Glosso glossostigma elatinoides glossostigma elatinoides commonly known as glosso.

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. This low green plant species is native to australia and new zealand where it grows in shallow water bogs and marshes. In order to create a low lying foreground carpet glosso needs about 2 4 watts per gallon or 0 9 1 watts per liter. It has creeping runners and each of the green leaves is like a shape of a spatula.

Some aquascapers also use this plant all over the aquarium in iwagumi style aquascapes. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom. Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. Glossostigma elatinoides is best placed in the foreground as a carpet plant.

Many people have asked me how to start an emersed set up so i thought it d be best to go ahead and do this write up. The only issue that most aquascapers has with glosso is how to keep it growing low.