Carpeting And Colored Plants For Aquascaping

The stems of water wisteria can grow up to 20 inches tall and 10 inches wide.

Carpeting and colored plants for aquascaping.

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. Hemianthus callitrichoides is often abbreviated to hc is the main carpet plant in the aquascape. The plant has small leaves it looks lush and green creeping in nature is so popular that often known with the plant carpets. 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.

Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums. It can be used as a floating plant a carpet plant or just rooted in the substrate as a single plant. 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. Micranthemum commonly known as monte carlo is an aquarium plant with extremely small leaves making it an ideal foreground carpeting plant.

However crystalworth can grow as a carpet plant when submerged underwater. These plants work well at the front of your tank providing the foreground for your aquascape. 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.