Carpeting And Colored Plants For Aquascaping
They re one of the smallest carpet plants on the market which means that the aquascaper has an incredible amount of control over the layout.
Carpeting and colored plants for aquascaping. These plants work well at the front of your tank providing the foreground for your aquascape. This carpeting plant will creep to form a beautiful mat in due time. Micranthemum commonly known as monte carlo is an aquarium plant with extremely small leaves making it an ideal foreground carpeting plant. Hemianthus callitrichoides is often abbreviated to hc is the main carpet plant in the aquascape.
However crystalworth can grow as a carpet plant when submerged underwater. A single antler bud of riccia fluitans can reproduce a colony. Although it s naturally a floating liverwort it will grow underwater when completely submerged and aquarists can tie it to objects so that it then grows as a mat. If you search for aquascapes online you will notice that many aquascapers use micranthemum to create verdant green slopes that mimic a grassy hill or mountain.
The plant has small leaves it looks lush and green creeping in nature is so popular that often known with the plant carpets. In aquascape they tie this carpeting plant with a fishing line to some objects to make it stays in place and grow in a horizontal pattern. Dwarf baby tears dwarf baby tears technically known as hemianthus callitrichoides is probably my favorite carpet plant.