Emersed Glosso Carpet

Glossostigma elatinoides is best placed in the foreground as a carpet plant.

Emersed glosso carpet.

Some aquascapers also use this plant all over the aquarium in iwagumi style aquascapes. Ph 8 2 i brought the ph back up to hard water as i was keeping the glosso with other hard water plants lights on for 12 hours a day results after successfully growing the first carpet of glossostigma under the 3000k bulbs and different water parameters i wanted to start over and now try this experiment with the right bulbs. It can grow emersed or submersed in muddy and flooded areas on lakeshores and river banks in its natural habitat. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom.

Glossostigma elatinoides also called glosso is one of the most popular fast growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. Failure to illuminate glosso properly will cause this plant to grow taller instead of sideways and eventually the plant will disintegrate. Many people have asked me how to start an emersed set up so i thought it d be best to go ahead and do this write up. The only issue that most aquascapers has with glosso is how to keep it growing low.

Posts about emersed glossostigma written by torontoplantman. Glossostigma elatinoides is a low growing aquarium carpet plant that looks like a lawn. This low green plant species is native to australia and new zealand where it grows in shallow water bogs and marshes. It has creeping runners and each of the green leaves is like a shape of a spatula.

Glosso glossostigma elatinoides glossostigma elatinoides commonly known as glosso. Most of the time increasing light intensity and increasing co2 are enough to keep glosso low.