Foreground Plant For Pea Gravel?

[nry]

I have currently got some H.C. growing in my pea gravel (poor choice I know, but it went in last year before I knew anything!). Whilst it is growing I wouldn't say it is managing to root into the gravel that well.

Is there anything to suggest which may be better suited? I have JBL AquaBasis Plus beneath the gravel so it isn't all bad! Not too keen on using riccia on slate/stone.

 

[arif_93]

what about
Pygmy Chain Sword (Echinodorus tenellus)
Dwarf Hairgrass (Eleocharis parvula)
Glossostigma (Glossostigma elatinoides)
Brazilian Micro Sword (Lilaeopsis brasiliensis)
i have tried all of these tennelus and hairgrass are easiest to grow

 

[RadaR]

Glosso does far better in these sorts of substrates. Just depends whether it's high tech enough.

 

[nry]

2.5wpg, pressurised CO2 at 30ppm (green 4dkh water and bromo blue) and EI dosing. Should be sufficient for anything! May give glosso a try in a few weeks, cheers!

 

[lljdma06]

2.5wpg, pressurised CO2 at 30ppm (green 4dkh water and bromo blue) and EI dosing. Should be sufficient for anything! May give glosso a try in a few weeks, cheers!

Though I use it for my low-light tanks, Marsilea hirsuta might be an option. It may stay nice and low with your light and grow mad with your CO2. It's structure is a lot tougher than glosso or HC and it should be able to poke through pea gravel. The color is very appealing, a bright green, and its leaf shapes are charming. The single-lobed leaf is cute, but I personally really like the four-lobed leaf, which can appear when the plant is submerged, especially when it stays low to the substrate (looks a lot like a four-leafed clover). It can also come with two lobes or three lobes and often appears with a mixture. I don't think there are many plants out there that as charming as that. It adds a certain quaintness to a scape, very nice for immitating a woodland scape for Nature aquariums.

llj