Leaf colourgreen
rhizome midground foreground
Leaves cut into narrow fingers on upright stalks, like a stand of tiny green umbrellas. Unlike most carpets it grows in height as well as width, and looks like nothing else in a tank.
- Light
- medium
- Difficulty
- medium
- Height
- 5 cm
- Temperature
- 10 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typerhizome
Growth ratefast
CO₂ demandmedium
Tolerates lightmedium – high
pH5 – 7
Carbonate hardness0 – 14 °dKH
General hardness0 – 30 °dGH
Placementmidground, foreground
Propagationrunners, division +1
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Deeply lobed star-shaped leaves on thin stalks about 5 cm tall. The plant spreads by creeping runners and forms a low, open cover rather than a dense mat.
Keeping
Moderate demands: good light keeps it compact, and carbon dioxide speeds the spread; in shade the stalks stretch and the cover thins. Overlong leaves can simply be trimmed.
Placement
The front and middle of the tank. Its unusual leaf shape shows best against a plain substrate rather than among fine-leaved plants.
Propagation
By runners: new plants appear along a creeping shoot and root themselves. Cut a rooted piece and move it.
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