Carpeting And Colored Plants For Aquascaping

However crystalworth can grow as a carpet plant when submerged underwater.

Carpeting and colored plants for aquascaping.

Hemianthus callitrichoides is often abbreviated to hc is the main carpet plant in the aquascape. Micranthemum commonly known as monte carlo is an aquarium plant with extremely small leaves making it an ideal foreground carpeting plant. This carpeting plant will creep to form a beautiful mat in due time. The plant has small leaves it looks lush and green creeping in nature is so popular that often known with the plant carpets.

It can be used as a floating plant a carpet plant or just rooted in the substrate as a single plant. The stems of water wisteria can grow up to 20 inches tall and 10 inches wide. 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. These plants work well at the front of your tank providing the foreground for your aquascape.

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. Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums. 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.