Small asian foreground plant?

Okay, got a 10g nano, semi-blackwater, either need an asian or cosmopolitan species as a very small foreground plant. Growing only up to maybe 4 inches... needs to be lowlight, no CO2.

Any suggestions? Needs to fit in front of the driftwood in this setup...

Id have considered java moss... but i think i want something leafy. If theres nothing, then ill probably have to settle.

What about water sprite?
Limnophila? Something that resembles guppy grass? Guppy grass its self?
Hygrophila?

Cryptocoryne parva or Riccia fluitans.

Salty&Onion said:

What about water sprite?
Limnophila? Something that resembles guppy grass? Guppy grass its self?
Hygrophila?

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These grow too tall for what im looking for unfortunately as they dont stop growing.

Crispii said:

Cryptocoryne parva or Riccia fluitans.

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Riccia may be an option... but ive tried it before it keels over very easily.

BUT ill look into crypt parva, because i do good with crypts

Cryptocoryne. There are species that remain small. They used to thrive in my tanks with moderate to low light.

Byron said:

Cryptocoryne. There are species that remain small. They used to thrive in my tanks with moderate to low light.

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Parva has already been recommended. I got some larger ones in there they just need to grow... they are planted runners off of a parent plant in my 46g... the parent plant is about 8-10 inches tall.

If you know what species this is... i got 4 runners from it planted in the 10g too, in front of the anacharis in a line to the sponge filter. Theyre small, only 2-3 inches still. Ill probably keep what fits when full grown and move the others out.

I am not of much help with species in Cryptocoryne. And flowers are the most accurate way to ID them, which means growing them emersed.

In the 1990's I had crypts which I assumed from the nursery name tags were Cryptocoryne parva (this is the smallest species I believe, something like a microsword), C. pontederiifolia, C. undulata, C. walkeri var, and C. wendtii. All went well until the pH in the source water went from below 5 up to 7.0 without my knowing they were doing this (they added soda ash) and two days after the weekly water change every crypt was a pile of mush. A few re-grew, but never with the same degree of lushness, and one by one they just disappeared.

Ive always had crypts in all my tanks because they do fine in low moderate light and i like that they have runners so i dont have to buy a bunch of them. When i lived in Utah the water i had was pretty hard 10 gh+ and the crypts did really well. When i moved to California i took 1 tank with me and all my crypts and they were struggling not growing or spreading just really sad and the water in California where i was was soft water so i got some calcium chloride and magnesium sulfate and added it and my crypts took off and were sending out runners and i was trimming them all the time. Crypts need calcium and magnesium im not sure what your GH is generally blackwater set ups are low GH if so if wanting to grow crypts id make sure they have enough calcium.

Well i liked crypt parva, but the only source for it was rather pricy for while im not working, but another source had java moss on sale for a nice price, so i got the java moss, a 50 pack of alder cones, and some specialty shrimp powder for my bamboo shrimp all for a cheaper price than the parva from another source lol cost made the choice for me. And id be happy to move the java moss to other tanks as it grows as well

Fingers crossed as ive never tried java moss before. Super easy plants i kill off lol i kill duckweed just looking at it. Ive killed java fern lol

Crypts, swords, and ludwigia do very well in my tanks though.

NCaquatics said:

Fingers crossed as ive never tried java moss before. Super easy plants i kill off lol i kill duckweed just looking at it.

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If I set up a video link would you mind having a look at my tanks

NCaquatics said:

These grow too tall for what im looking for unfortunately as they dont stop growing.

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I won't say anything else then.

Salty&Onion said:

I won't say anything else then.

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Nah im always happy for suggestions