Plant typerosette
Native range
- Algeria
- Baleares
- Corse
- France
- Italy
- Libya
- Morocco
- Portugal
- Sardegna
- Sicilia
- Spain
- Tunisia
rosette background midground nano tank specimen Conservation status: EN
A rosette of stiff rush-like leaves from Mediterranean waters. Quillworts are ancient plants — the nearest living relatives of the giant club mosses of the coal forests — and they reproduce by spores, not seed.
- Light
- medium–high
- Difficulty
- easy
- Temperature
- 5 – 28 °C
Parameters
Growth rateslow
Tolerates lightmedium – high
Carbonate hardness0 – 15 °dKH
Placementbackground, midground +2
Propagationspores, division +1
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Narrow cylindrical leaves growing in a rosette from a short tuber-like stem. Nothing about it looks like a flowering plant, because it is not one.
Keeping
Undemanding but slow: medium to strong light, a nutritious substrate, cool to moderate water. Its pace is the main thing to plan around — a plant changes little from month to month, and it is rarely offered in shops.
Placement
The middle of the tank or as a small specimen, including nano layouts.
Propagation
By spores, and by dividing an established plant.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1008 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
Swordtail GuppiesCobra GuppyBlood Red MollyButterflyfishRed Zebra CichlidJulii CorydorasRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraKenyi CichlidCuckoo CatfishGolden SwordtailHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus BrokopondoZebra Mbuna
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaSpined LoachMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMolly sphenopsBalloon MollyLyretail MollyMarble MollyHi-Fin PlatyHawaii PlatyBlue PlatyPintail PlatyBlack PlatyChocolate MollyMoonlight 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 AcaraAulonocara maylandiAulonocara multicolorAulonocara OrchidGeophagus altifronsGeophagus winemilleriPearlscale CichlidPearl CichlidRedbelly CichlidRed-spotted CichlidChuco godmanniHaplochromis philanderRed ChromideJack Dempsey cichlid
Cultivars
The same plant with a different look: light, water and care are shared with the species.
Other varieties: Isoetes velata var. sicula, Isoetes Velata Var. Sicula