Foreground plants

The reason I asked is that Star Grass requires, in my experience and at that depth, a minimum of 3 watts/gal. 4 watts/gal. would be better.
It is the only stem plant that I have grown that requires little re-planting to grow well and responds well to heavy pruning, getting thick and bushy. IMO, an excellent foreground or mid ground plant. I love the stuff.

I have no resource, at this time to take pictures. Maybe down the road I will get a digital camera. My daughter-in-law has one I think. Maybe I can ask her to take a picture.

Len
 
I have stargrass in the 55g in a fairly shaded spot. That tank has slightly under 3 wpg (though, no reflectors, NO light, and is a foot and a half above the water) and it grows very well. I do think, however, that in most applications it will grow too fast to be a large base ground cover.
 
The "more common" form (ie the slightly taller one) is the eleocharis parvulus. It is on most plantguides, I think.
 
if you cut a little pice of moss off of a moss ball, would it form its own new ball, if left to float? i was wondering because last time i was at my lfs, i saw the moss balls and thought they were cool, but being quite expensive, i didnt get one. there was however some attractive dark green algae growing on plants and wood and stuff in the same tank as the moss balls, and i got the lfs person to give me a little piece of that because it was really nice looking algae and i thought i could decorate my rocks and things with it or perhaps even use it as a carpet. it seems to have grown some while in my tank, but seems rather slow growing and does not attach to rocks quickly. this algae was not in any of the other tanks besides the 4 on the same filter system as algae balls. so i was thinking maybe this is the same stuff only not big enough to form balls?
 
Some people do try this..not sure how well it attaches when it doesn't want to however.

The algae you like is called cladophora.
 
cladophora, thanks, i will look it up! i hope that the few small fragments i have will form balls eventually. they seem to be living just fine in my tank, just not growing that fast, which is suppose to be normal for them.
 
leopardess, is profile more like sand or more like gravel?
 
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