Perdition to paradise (hopefully)

[greying_mantis]

Giant Vallis, almost 'bullet proof' but it does need a suitably deep substrate to anchor itself happily in, I have used fine gravel, silver sand and horticultural grit added into, and indeed, just sprinkled on top of pea gravel, after a time it sinks in. Giant Vallis also likes root tabs, but without fine substrate root tabs just become expensive water column fertilisers.

Is giant vallis what I appear to have? It was just sold as vallis. I’d like to get some more to fill out the back, because I’m too impatient to wait for enough runners from this lot. I have some v.asiatica (which may be the same as v.spiralis?) to go in front of it for texture