glossostigma growing advice
 

Does anybody have any recommendations or advice on growing glossostigma ?

glossostigma growing advice
 

Lots and lots and lots of light - minimum of 3 watts per gallon, depending
on the depth of your tank, say 20" or so.

Extra CO2 will definitely help it get going and keep it more full if you're
going for the lawn effect but is not, in my opinion, absolutely critical.

NO D*MN BOTIAS! or anything else that digs or picks at leaf tips or you will
find all your gloss floating at the top of the tank every morning.

Pick any big snails out of your tank before you start - by the time the next
generation of snails grows up, the gloss will be well enough established to
handle them.

If your using high lighting and CO2 make sure you have a small, long bladed,
very sharp pair of scissors for all the pruning you'll be doing every week.

Good luck, gloss is a lot of fun and a lot of work.

kush

"You can't have everything - where would you put it?"

johnrowlands wrote in message
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Does anybody have any recommendations or advice on growing glossostigma ?

glossostigma growing advice
 

pH values between 6.8 and 7.0. Regular fertilizer. Good substrate
(flourite, etc) that supplies a steady state of iron. Light demanding
plant, so you want high light.

Check out www.tropica.com for their recommendations and other sites.
Others may have better advice as I have never grown it successfully.



"johnrowlands" wrote in message ...
Does anybody have any recommendations or advice on growing glossostigma ?

glossostigma growing advice
 

Does anybody have any recommendations or advice on growing glossostigma ?

Yes...
Take the time to plant the stems individualy with tweezers.I HAD a nice clean
carpet of glosso in my tank untill my pair of Flag fish ate+destroyed it in a
matter of 2 days (I was out of town).

N8

glossostigma growing advice
 

Lots and lots and lots of light - minimum of 3 watts per gallon, depending
on the depth of your tank, say 20" or so.

IME, it will do fine with less, as long as there's plenty of CO2.

NO D*MN BOTIAS! or anything else that digs or picks at leaf tips or you will
find all your gloss floating at the top of the tank every morning.

My pack of clown loaches don't bother it. They poke around in it a lot, but it
stays rooted. It's the Lilaeopsis and hairgrass they keep digging up.

Pick any big snails out of your tank before you start - by the time the next
generation of snails grows up, the gloss will be well enough established to
handle them.

I had adult apple snails (P. bridgesi) in my tank when I installed the glosso,
and they didn't bother it.

Good luck, gloss is a lot of fun and a lot of work.

I find glosso to be almost no work -- easier to grow than either hairgrass or
Lilaeopsis. (Perhaps because I don't have a mega-bright tank.) It stays very
flat, and spreads only horizontally, not vertically. So I just pull out a
handful or two when it starts encroaching in areas where I don't want it.

(I've heard that if glosso grows well for you, Lilaeopsis won't. So maybe
that's why glosso is a low-maintenance, easy to grow plant for me. I can't
seem to grow Lilaeopsis to save my life. :-P)

Anyway, I have only one "trick" for growing glosso, and that's to plant it
right. If you have the patience, cut it into tiny sections (one pair of leaves
per section) and plant each piece indivually. If you don't have that kind of
patience, plant the stems horizonally in the gravel (fine, sand-like substrate
is better). I plant it as horizontal as possible, then throw a handful of
substrate on top of it, to hold it down. (It's okay to bury some leaves, as
long as some are above the surface.) If you plant it that way, it will grow
horizontally, even with moderate light.


Leigh

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/

glossostigma growing advice
 

Plant it in a checkerboard pattern,
Make sure it gets plenty of light and nutrients
Make sure it has cos and it makes a nice forground plant

Marcus

http://www.Aquatic-Store.com

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:25:29 -0000, "johnrowlands"
wrote:

Does anybody have any recommendations or advice on growing glossostigma ?