Need Advice On Eleocharis Parvula

[Tonyb111111]

Does anyone have experience of this plant. It is my last ditch attempt at plant a lawn plant and although it is stated as an undemanding fast growing plant in most light conditions, I would like to know what peoples experiences are growing it. All advice would be welcome

 

[m_attt]

had lots of sucess, what do you want help with

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[Tonyb111111]

Well, first problem is my cories digging it up before it takes root and how I can prevent this. I thought about creating a makeshift cage over them to stop this. Secondly, I just need to be sure that my lighting is adequate, two 39w T5's through 50cm of water. And finally, how well it will take to sand substrate using fert tabs. What are your thoughts?

 

[m_attt]

Fish will up-root it untill its taken hold, if you plant enough in one go you should be ok.

lighting sounds fine to me, Ive used less in my tanks and had no problems, and the tank pictured was inert sand with NO root tabs.

you need say 5-10 pots depending on tank size, split it up into tiny bunches of say 5mm diameter (takes bloody ages) then plant it in the pattern of the number 5 on a dice, spaced 1cm apart.

you need to make sure you have good flow in your tank, that pushes down to substrate level so the ferts get pushed amongst the plants. again the tank pictured was only done with easycarbo and profito dosed as it said on the bottle. (its all im doing now in my nano but with ada amazonia, and 2weeks in and its runners galore)

thats about it really, Iv'e just followed the rules, good flow, ferts and co2. Nothing fancy as in plain sand, once a week profito, and daily easycarbo.

 

[Tonyb111111]

That sounds ideal. I have koralia 1600 giving great flow across the area I want to plant, and I also add Flourish excel and Profito, which will be changed to TPN+ when it runs out. Just got to stop the demolition crew

 

[m_attt]

oh and forgot to say,

before you break it up, cut it to 2/3cm long, then every two weeks hack it down to 2cm above substrate level to encourage sideways growth. if you buy stuff that has been grow emersed expect melting after a week and that will soon go if your patient

 

[Tonyb111111]

Cracking, will get some ordered from Trpoica then. After I manage to get my new wood to stop floating in the bath.

 

[m_attt]

check out aqua essentials, its cheap there. Not tropica but tbh ive always found aqua essentials plants to be better quality

also i would go acualaris, it grows straighter, parvula gows all messy and curled over i have both in my nano and the heights are no different.