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• Dec 4, 2020

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This came as a free plant with my crypts. Is it hairgrass or what?

 

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looks like hair grass, stick it in a pot and put the pot in a tray of water, see if it grows.

 

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Colin_T said:

looks like hair grass, stick it in a pot and put the pot in a tray of water, see if it grows.

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@Colin_T I put it in the tank. Did I do something wrong?

 

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Hair grass is a garden/ marsh plant that usually rots when underwater. If it has really bright light and heaps of fertiliser it might survive but normally it just rots.

 

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Colin_T said:

Hair grass is a garden/ marsh plant that usually rots when underwater. If it has really bright light and heaps of fertiliser it might survive but normally it just rots.

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I’ll take it out. Thanks!

 

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split it into 2 plants and put one in the tank and the other in a pot, see which does better.

 

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• Dec 7, 2020

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Eleocharis? Do images match? I'm seeing it for sale more and more. Seems like a high light plant and Co2 type. A hunch.