Foreground plants

[Toshika]

Hi, anyone out there have experience keeping low maintenance foreground?what examples are there available?i need some for my new setup tank....

[illumnae]

i'd recommend hairgrass. the only maintenance you need is periodic "haircuts"

[doppelbanddwarf]

I'd second hairgrass. You just have to plant it in small groups of 3-4 plants at the start instead of one big group. Then after that the more you trim the more they spread.

[torque6]

hairgrass is low maintainenace, cutting them encourages growth. Crypt parva is another foreground plant but am not sure if they are low maintenance, you have to check with benny.

[Bybloz]

hairgrass is low maintainenace, cutting them encourages growth. Crypt parva is another foreground plant but am not sure if they are low maintenance, you have to check with benny.

In my opinion, Crypt Parva grows way too slowly.

[Toshika]

tks.Parva is rather expensive right?anyway i tried hair grass, but my corys seem to always uproot them...

[Bybloz]

E.Tennellus is low maintenance, and grows reasonably well even in low-tech tanks. Also my cories have never uprooted them since day one.

[jackwolf]

i'd recommend hairgrass. the only maintenance you need is periodic "haircuts"

how do you do the haircut? really like cutting hair triming the top portion?

[Verminator]

If someone could shed some light on that matter too?

I wondered why my hairgrass was not 'spreading' well, due to no trimming taking place i guess. How much should i cut? top 10%, 25%, 50%?

How extreme shall i cut?

[illumnae]

cut as if you're mowing your lawn with scissors you just snip off as much as you want (leaving some of the plant behind of course!)

[Verminator]

Ok, by that i'm guessing that say 50% would be ok withouth any problems, so that is what i shall try.

cheers.

[moss_guy]

I recommend Hemianthus Callitrichoides "Cuba" (Hc). It is a very nice foreground plant.

[illumnae]

he wanted a low maintenance foreground moss_guy hc, from what i've been reading, is one of the most demanding foreground plants in the hobby. i do agree that it's very nice though

[Verminator]

I second that. Even with co2 and high lghting my HC (cuba) died off =(

[Toshika]

thanks guys. i think i may try hairgrass or E.Tennellus ...

[David Moses Heng]

tks.Parva is rather expensive right?

not true... If you know where to search, you can get them really affordable.at cost( lower than oriental) I bought cups of them for my Montfort project at cost... In all, i spent onlt less than one blue plus 2 red for a lot of plants( crypt parva, coffee nana, vallisneris americana, crinum natans' Crispus', crypt affini plus free nymphaea micrantha , nymphaea rubra and about 10 cups of free normal hair grass)plus one branchy driftwood covered with spiky moss. The drift wood is about 3 feet long

[Toshika]

not true... If you know where to search, you can get them really affordable.at cost( lower than oriental) I bought cups of them for my Montfort project at cost... In all, i spent onlt less than one blue plus 2 red for a lot of plants( crypt parva, coffee nana, vallisneris americana, crinum natans' Crispus', crypt affini plus free nymphaea micrantha , nymphaea rubra and about 10 cups of free normal hair grass)plus one branchy driftwood covered with spiky moss. The drift wood is about 3 feet long

hi,
where you got them?

[David Moses Heng]

hi,
where you got them?

pm me. we correspond via pm

[torque6]

thanks guys. i think i may try hairgrass or E.Tennellus ...

e.tennellus grows taller than HG, remember to plant them at the back if you do.

[Verminator]

Even so would you say 15cm max? E.Tennellus still makes a great lawn at the front, assuming you don't have a tank with limited height. Most tanks would be fine i would have thought in having it planted wherever.