Just wanted some advice on glossostigma as I am looking at getting some but want to know how hard/easy it is to grow in an aquarium, I know its needs a good amount of light and our tank is 60+cms deep...

What kind of gravel/substrate should be used for best response etc.

Thanks!

It is a very small plant with small roots and is not easy to plant so it would be easiest in sand or very fine gravel. Very difficult to plant in standard gravel. Requires very good light and 600mm is a tall tank.

It is normally grown emersed so it will be difficult to convert to submersed growth in a tropical aquarium at this time of year. I have some and could send you a bit for $5.00 p&p only but I would advise against it unless you have intense light like metal halides.

Hmm no thats great advice thanks Alan its what I needed to know, as I wasnt sure with the tank being so deep, the lights arent that good either, so maybe I'll leave it as a project for a smaller tank.

Do you know any plants that have that same sort of look/effect in a tank that doesnt require such intense light (and isnt tasty to silver distichodus :lol: )

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Sorry, I don't.

yea i had some in my tank with 2 t5 lighting on and still didnt grow :evil:

Yeah from what Ive read its better grown in a shallow tank with intense lighting, or in a pond.

Which sucks because as far as aquascaping goes its the look I wanted.

ah well... another cool solution may be xmas moss.

Or, if you found the ultimate piece of driftwood, with a shallow depression on the right side at the right height you could put substrate in there and have a driftwood planterbox with glosso in it

That would be cool 8)

Glosso's a mission and a half....

Saw a great tank once I think it was just java moss and caboomba. Glosso isn't as hard as riccia. This is the glosso carpet I grew in a 50cm deep tank but I had a 400w metal hallide light above it. It was a lot of fun but next time I'd do 2 metal hallides at each end so it covers the whole bottom. It has a great carpet effect...

I don't even try to grow it submersed. That is 10x the light I have on mine.

Even with that light it eventually it all died off.....apparently the reason is is that in the wild it grows sometimes submersed other times right out of the water which of course it never had in that tank. I see riccia as harder cos you have to tie it all down, no roots at all

Came back after a 12 days and my glosso is growing well out of the water.

Its going crazy

Reminds me to get going on "project super nano"

Ricca is a pest IMO once its gets growing :roll:

hah yea riccia can grow like wildfire esp under metal hallide and create a matt that blocks light to the plants below......but if you put the effort in and tie it down or grow it through stockings and attach it to rocks and driftwood it looks magic