| Description | 5” | Foreground | Medium
Co2: Medium | Light: Low
Root Feeder | 8” | Background | Easy
Co2: Low | Light: Medium
Root Feeder | 6” | Foreground | Easy
Co2: No | Light: Low
Column Feeder | 4” | Foreground | Advance
Co2: High | Light: High | 3” | Carpet | Easy
Co2: No | Light: Medium
Root Feeder | 16” | Background | Medium
Co2: Medium | Light: High
Root Feeder |
| Content | Hydrocotyle tripartita
Characteristics:
Max Size: 5"
Care Level: Medium
Nutrient Source: Root Feeder
Composition: Foreground
Parameters
Co2: Low - Medium
Light Level: Low
Tank Mates
Low foreground plants are great for invertebrates and bottom feeders to graze and hide.
Notes
Hydrocotle Japan make great foreground and midground plants. The clover-like appearance of this plant creates a unique carpet experience. It’s very hardy, undemanding and can quickly cover your foreground. High lighting will help this plant grow low and spread. Insufficient lighting will have the clovers reaching for the sky. CO2 again will help with density and compactness.
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See the diagrams on how you can setup CO2 for your aquarium | Alternanthera Reineckii "Mini"
Characteristics:
Max Size: 8″
Care Level: Easy
Nutrient Source: Root Feeder + Water Column
Composition: Background
Parameters
Co2: Low
Light Level: Medium
Tank Mates
Great for community fish, shrimp and snails
Notes
"AR" Alternanthera Reineckii Rosanervig is the taller version of Alternanthera Reineckii Mini. The underside is generally more red and the top yellow, but with proper substrate, lighting, CO2 and iron dosing, this plant can display vibrant red colors. Their leaves are susceptible to algae, so monitor and trim regularly.
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See the diagrams on how you can setup CO2 for your aquarium | Subwassertang
Characteristics:
Max Size: 6"
Care Level: Easy
Nutrient Source: Column Feeder
Composition: Foreground
Parameters
Co2: None
Light Level: Low
Tank Mates
All community and nano fish like tetras, rasboras, danios, guppies, gouramis and otocinclus.
Dwarf shrimps love this plant!
Notes
Subwassertang is a tangled, ribbon-like moss that's great for shrimp tanks. Their flat leaves provide lots of surface area to graze and hide. Like all mosses, it's a column feeding plant that can be tied to hardscape or weighed down, but not buried. | Glossostigma Elatinoides
Characteristics:
Max Size: 4"
Care Level: Advance
Nutrient Source: Root Feeder
Composition: Foreground
Parameters
Co2: Low - High
Light Level: High
Tank Mates
Low foreground plants are great for invertebrates and bottom feeders to graze and hide.
Notes
This is another popular carpeting plant in aquascaping. The leaves are bigger than Dwarf Baby tears and their requirements are nearly identical. To create a strong perspective, you can place the larger Glossostiga Elatinoides in the front and the smaller Dwarf Baby Tears further back.
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See the diagrams on how you can setup CO2 for your aquarium | Lilaeopsis brasiliensis
Characteristics:
Max Size: 3"
Care Level: Easy
Nutrient Source: Root Feeder
Composition: Carpet and Foreground
Parameters
Co2: Optional
Light Level: Medium to High
Tank Mates
Great carpet plant. Creates a lush looking lawn. Closely resembles grass
Notes
Microsword is one of the easiest carpet plants for beginners. They’re relatively hardy and look like real lawn grass. Plant clusters about 1.5” - 2” apart and allow them to infill. They have runners that spread over the surface and shoot roots down into the substrate. When planting, angle into the substrate at a diagonal to minimize uplifting.
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See the diagrams on how you can setup CO2 for your aquarium | Proserpinaca palustris
Characteristics:
Max Size: 16″
Care Level: Medium
Nutrient Source: Root Feeder + Water Column
Composition: Background
Parameters
Co2: Medium
Light Level: High
Tank Mates
Great for community fish, shrimp and snails
Notes
This greenish to orange-red plant has a wide canopy and distinguished saw-tooth edges. It's a relatively hardy plant, but with strong lighting and CO2 it can start to show more red colors.
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