This was the only low light ground cover my legs had in stock and it is t one I’m familiar with so I was curious if anyone could ID it so I could figure out its needs.
It looks like hydrocotle tripartita or similar to me. It can be kept low or allowed to get taller as yours is doing with that 1 spot. If you want it low just pinch off the taller part or let it grow tall. It "can" grow with lower light & no co2 but is better with higher highish light & co2. Be very gentle when vacuuming near it, it's a bit fragile but pretty.
It looks like hydrocotle tripartita or similar to me. It can be kept low or allowed to get taller as yours is doing with that 1 spot. If you want it low just pinch off the taller part or let it grow tall. It "can" grow with lower light & no co2 but is better with higher highish light & co2. Be very gentle when vacuuming near it, it's a bit fragile but pretty.
This small, delicate Hydrocotyle is highly popular with aquascapers especially from Asia, and is known under diverse names there. It was hardly known in Europe until recently. However, it was imported from Thailand to Italy in 2008 under th...
Great! Thanks for that. I have never seen this one before and most of my lfs carry all the most common stuff so that's why I grabbed it. I'll move it to a more midground position since I'm not running any kind of complex setup at the moment.
Some of my plant clubbers with small shallow tanks do use it as 2-3 inch low tech groundcover...but I think they're much more into maintenance (trimming) & fert dosing that I am My tanks are fairly large & I'm lazy, lol.