I also got this plant just over a week ago; it was a square patch of 2 inches. I thought this process is much easier than planting it in a substrate (I don稚 have a tweezer) and will spread much faster in the foreground: what I did was I cut a "cross stitch" and insert each stem into most of the hole. I added some lead weight in each corner and placed it in my foreground. I sprinkled some sand into that patch to hide the cross stitch. It was a tedious work.
I should just have cut this patch of plant into fours and planted it in directly to the substrate. Cut a sliver of lead weights and bend it into a U-shape and pin the plant with this to the substrate to keep from floating.
Right now, about five percent of the plant in my 29 gallon tank is turning brown, probably due to my rough handling and/or I知 not consistent of my DIY CO2. My light regimen is eight hours of light: 55 watts at first and another 55 watts of light somewhere in between those eight hours. A planted this tank in an area where about a 3 quarter of an inch is silica sand and the bottom is Seachem Fluorite and sprinkle of peat moss. Even though some are turning brown, the plant is also forming new leaves and roots which give me hope that it will survive.
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