Leaf colourgreen, red
Native range
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mexico Northeast
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
stem plant midground nano tank Dutch street foreground
Fine needle-shaped leaves in crosswise pairs that build soft cloud-like bushes. Olive green in an ordinary tank, orange and red at the tips in a bright one.
- Light
- medium–high
- Difficulty
- difficult
- Temperature
- 4 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typestem plant
Growth ratefast
Tolerates lightmedium – high
pH5 – 7
Carbonate hardness2 – 10 °dKH
General hardness0 – 30 °dGH
Placementmidground, nano tank +2
Propagationcuttings
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Narrow leaves set in crosses along a thin stem, so the plant looks feathery from any angle. The colour of the growing tips runs from olive through salmon to ruby depending on light and iron.
Keeping
Difficult, and the reason is that it wants everything in balance: good light, soft slightly acidic water, iron and carbon dioxide. Get one of them wrong and the stems go thin and bare from below. In good conditions it grows quickly and branches into a dense bush.
Placement
The front or middle of the tank in a group, where the fine texture can be seen against broad-leaved neighbours. It suits a nano tank as well.
Propagation
By cuttings: cut the top and plant it; the old stem branches below the cut and thickens the group.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 841 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
ButterflyfishJulii CorydorasRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus BrokopondoHomaloptera bilineataRed-tailed RasboraBoraras naevusLampeye KillifishSpotted Raphael CatfishCorydoras melanotaeniaFestivum cichlidPseudomugil paskai
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMoonlight GouramiMelanotaenia parva
Will uproot it
These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.
Marble LoachPeacock EelForktail LoachGuntea LoachLong-nosed LoachHorseface LoachPearlscaleBlack Moor GoldfishShubunkinPainted PlecoFeatherfin SynodontisReddish Mystus CatfishBlue AcaraGeophagus altifronsGeophagus winemilleriPearl CichlidRed-spotted CichlidHaplochromis philanderRed ChromideJack Dempsey cichlid