Lilaeopsis Mauritiana Carpet

The plants height and distance between its leaves depend on the light intensity.

Lilaeopsis mauritiana carpet.

The next video is starting stop. Relatively easy foreground plant that can form a grass like carpet about 3 inches tall. The more light it gets the lower the plant and the denser. This variety of micro swords grows faster and does not require as much light as other varieties.

Lilaeopsis mauritiana micro sword narrow leaf is a relatively undemanding carpet forming plant for the foreground in the aquarium. The brazilian micro sword lilaeopsis brasiliensis is a short stemmed plant that can be grown as a carpet in an aquarium. Under lower light it will grow taller as opposed to bright light where it will grow quite short and spread as a lawn carpet. Ole pedersen 27 227 views.

The algal free planted aquarium amano shrimps sae and cherry shrimps ole pedersen duration. Narrow leaf micro sword lilaeopsis mauritiana is known by many names including micro sword grass copragrass and carpet grass. It is up to 12 cm high. Lilaeopsis brasiliensis skill level.

Medium light carpeting plant. It is a very interesting looking aquatic carpeting plant that always looks excellent in the foreground of aquariums. This grass like micro sword species is exceptional for creating a lawn in the foreground of the aquarium. The great thing with carpet aquarium plants is when established they will happily spread throughout the base of your tank and cover your substrate gravel or sand.

Visit our uk shop if you need any advice or guidance on aquatic plants in general. Lilaeopsis mauritiana or more commonly called micro sword narrow leaf is a short grass like plant that grows into a thick grassy lawn. Grows best with medium to high light with good fertilization. It requires an average lighting in the aquarium to form a lawn like carpet.

Tropica s founder holger windeløv found it on mauritius in 1992. It is found throughout much of brazil and it grows both fully submersed and partially submersed on the banks of rivers and streams. The light green leaves are roundish to elliptical in shape and look similar to fine grained grass. One of the easier carpeting plants.