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Re: [AGA Member] Marsilea carpets
Does hairgrass grow well under low light conditions?
Paula.
On Saturday 27 March 2004 11:50 pm, you wrote:
> > Are other carpets (e.g. glossostigma and dwarf
>
> hair grass) subject to the
>
> > same problems?
>
> I have tried Glosso, marsilea, and hairgrass. I
> feel that glosso requires too much work and
> marsilea takes a bit less, but still chokes itself
> out as glosso will do. I do however love
> hairgrass. It has stayed maintenance free for
> years except for the single case of hair algae,
> which was quite a fight. After balancing the
> tank's nutrients and giving the hairgrass a good
> trimming right down to the gravel, it came back
> without a problem. Hairgrass does get taller then
> the glosso and marsilea that I have tried, but not
> too much. I have also had more tetra fry survive
> in tanks with lots of hairgrass. The only down
> side I can possibly think of is planting the
> hairgrass, if you thought planting glosso or
> marsilea was tedious, you have no idea....
> Steve
>
>
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Peace and love,
Paula
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