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.
Emersed glosso carpet.
Glossostigma elatinoides is best placed in the foreground as a carpet plant.
Some aquascapers also use this plant all over the aquarium in iwagumi style aquascapes.
Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank.
This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.
The only issue that most aquascapers has with glosso is how to keep it growing low.
Glosso glossostigma elatinoides glossostigma elatinoides commonly known as glosso.
Glosso is a versatile ground cover plant for forming dense mats over the foreground of tanks.
It can grow emersed or submersed in muddy and flooded areas on lakeshores and river banks in its natural habitat.
Posts about emersed glossostigma written by torontoplantman.
Please keep in mind i m in the process of clearing out many of my plants and tanks since i ll be moving to australia in early 2015.
Failure to illuminate glosso properly will cause this plant to grow taller instead of sideways and eventually the plant will disintegrate.
Glossostigma elatinoides is a low growing aquarium carpet plant that looks like a lawn.
Most of the time increasing light intensity and increasing co2 are enough to keep glosso low.
In order to create a low lying foreground carpet glosso needs about 2 4 watts per gallon or 0 9 1 watts per liter.