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Easy foreground carpet plant

Jaap

Jaap

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Hello,

please suggest an easy foreground carpet plant. HC might form a good carpet foreground but it might also form a thick carpet which will uproot easily as I found out. lilaeopsis brasiliensis seems to be difficult as many people suggest and utricularia graminifolia seems that it has high light and co2 demands with a very soft water which I don't have.

I might be mistaken though...any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Yeah MC will grow in anything. L. brasiliensis is also slow but steady in pretty much any conditions.

I like a mixed carpet approach - mix 3 or 4 different species (eg MC, L. brasiliensis, hairgrass and whatever that stuff I got from Alastair is called), then stuff will fill in at different heights and speeds and you get a nicely textured look where gaps are less obvious.
 
Marsilea is a good carpeter and pretty hardy. It forms deeper roots than HC and doesn't grow over the top of itself like HC does to make a thicker and thicker carpet. I have hirsuta in my 180l and it grows a couple of cm tall, or you can get 1-2 grow crenata which stays smaller, more like glosso.
 
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