Tempest
03-07-2004, 12:07 PM
About a year ago I started up a 10 gallon planted tank.. By now it was mostly looking like a jungle and the java fern was outgrowing the tank. I had trimmed regularlybut there still seems to come a point when it all needs redone.
I will qualify my jungle comment. Everything had done well except the Marsilea quadrifolia never had done it's carpet bit as well as I had hoped. It was growing up best in the far corners of the tank and that at the front looked pretty woeful. I'm telling on myself here when I say that I figured out why when I tore it out of the tank. It just hadn't dawned on me to question the growing habit of what is called aquatic clover. :D I took hold of a piece of it and started to pull it out. <lol> I sure was surprised when that one little plant turned in to a two foot string of little plants with only one growing tip. I ended up with mainly 5 long strings of little plants.. Each string only had one end growing. So it's no wonder the plants wouldn't do the job I wanted. (bonks herself onna head) :shake:
I had a lot more of the plant than I thought I did once I cut them all in to little pieces and mayhap I can actually get them to do what I want now.
I've never grown glosso but I've replanted the marsilea about like I've seen described to plant glosso using tweezers. Does glosso grow on runners too like the clover?
I will qualify my jungle comment. Everything had done well except the Marsilea quadrifolia never had done it's carpet bit as well as I had hoped. It was growing up best in the far corners of the tank and that at the front looked pretty woeful. I'm telling on myself here when I say that I figured out why when I tore it out of the tank. It just hadn't dawned on me to question the growing habit of what is called aquatic clover. :D I took hold of a piece of it and started to pull it out. <lol> I sure was surprised when that one little plant turned in to a two foot string of little plants with only one growing tip. I ended up with mainly 5 long strings of little plants.. Each string only had one end growing. So it's no wonder the plants wouldn't do the job I wanted. (bonks herself onna head) :shake:
I had a lot more of the plant than I thought I did once I cut them all in to little pieces and mayhap I can actually get them to do what I want now.
I've never grown glosso but I've replanted the marsilea about like I've seen described to plant glosso using tweezers. Does glosso grow on runners too like the clover?