How to get dwarf hairgrass to carpet

[Planted Bows]

Hi all,

I've just started my planted tank up.

Now it's been running for about a month and all it seems to be doing is growing towards the lights bit not carpeting.

Does this take more time than I'm giving it?
I just see all that's beautiful carpets and I want one lol!

I'm injecting Co2 and using profito, ferro and luquid carbon and I trim the hairgrass once every 2 weeks so I keep it around 1-2 cms.

My tank is the 30litre aquael setup with an 11w florescent bulb, however I'm looking to purchase the chirios aquasky for it.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

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[Guest]

IME not all dwarf hair grass is...well...dwarf😵
I've grown it in the past and it hasn't needed trimming at all, and it carpeted very quickly...in about 6 weeks
On the other hand the stuff I recently brought (sold as the dwarf variety) is pretty much stunted hair grass which requires regular trimming😕
That said, the key to success for me was massive flow, high light, and high CO2...

 

[Planted Bows]

I'm.not sure how much more Co2 I can go tbh. The DC is near yellow towards the end of the cycle. I will be chaging my.light which will also have dimmer controls etc. I have lots of flow which is on min atm but I could turn it up?

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