Hair grass

[niko]

Joe, I don't know the Latin name of the dwarf hairgrass.
I live in the US and if you live in Singapore I probably can't send you any of that grass. Besides - that thing seems to not grow awful fast. What you saw on the picture is all that I have.

--Nikolay

[niko]

Hwchoy,

I got the dwarf hairgrass about a year ago from an online vendor. It arrived looking like 1 or 2 green strands, literally. Everything else was rotten. I put the rotten mass in the tank and very very slowly it started to produce new leaves. I do think that that dwarf hairgrass is a fast grower - there was a time when it was exposed to good light and it covered about 1/2 sq. foot (about 15 sq. cm) in less than a week with a very dense growth.

The regular hairgrass on my pictures is in a new cube tank that has a big piece of wood. The wood leeches tannins in the water and makes it brownish. 3 days after a water change the tannins manage to block a lot of the light. The cube is 30 gals. and the lights are 110 watt total. More than 3 watts per gallon, that is pretty good lighting. But the tannins block it.
The other reason for the hairgrass to not grow to it's full potential is that I've not been fertilizing too well, and I had no fish in that tank untill 2 weeks ago or so. Indeed - you need to provide the basics for even the simplest plant or you get mediocre growth at best.

--Nikolay