How to plant Hemianthus callitrichoides

[stillife]

Hi,

I saw some pictures on Hemianthus callitrichoides. Looks nice and interesting.
Anyone willing to spare me some to start off or sell me some? PM me if you have.
Do I need Co2? I am having a 2ft tank w/o Co2.

Any suggestion, advise. Thank you!

Cheers!

[marle]

Hi,

I saw some pictures on Hemianthus callitrichoides. Looks nice and interesting.
Anyone willing to spare me some to start off or sell me some? PM me if you have.
Do I need Co2? I am having a 2ft tank w/o Co2.

Any suggestion, advise. Thank you!

Cheers!

C02 - Yes.

Lighting - Yes. High light requirement.

Substrate - I failed on lapis sand but was successful on ada aquasoil.

Planting - take a small chunk(around 5 cent or 10 cent coin) and plant them.

Spares- Try the market place.

[torque6]

the requirement has been clear lay out by marble, so best to follow.

the real challenge is getting them rooted and the best method is still growing them in emersed form for a weeks till they flourish before adding water to the tank.

[rc311]

the requirement has been clear lay out by marble, so best to follow.

the real challenge is getting them rooted and the best method is still growing them in emersed form for a weeks till they flourish before adding water to the tank.

Hi,

I will like to check when we plant the HC in emersed, do we need to fert them? or just wet the sub and give them high light will do?

[berlinjs]

l bought 2 patches emerse form very thick, thinking they were all right l put them in tank but all didnt make it.
how to know when to submerge them?
l agree that lapis is a no no.

[mecedesfish]

l bought 2 patches emerse form very thick, thinking they were all right l put them in tank but all didnt make it.
how to know when to submerge them?
l agree that lapis is a no no.

I have trying very hard on this plant on few diff time but i failed. The failure could only be pointed at my altum angel. I will be back again for planted tank after CNY. This will be possible be the foreground (HC) plant which i am considering

cheers

[Fei Miao]

moving this to plant talk section.


Do a search on this topic, there were loads of information.

I seen success with this plant on both ADA soil and lapis sand, point to note is these plants have rather shallow roots, so in the initial growth critters like yamatos etc. tends to uproot them.

[StanChung]

Hi Stilllife,

Use toothpicks made into '^' to keep it in the soil. It's a good idea not to have cories or any big fish[discus] around that like to sift sand. Yamatos may make a meal out of it.