Glossotigma Elatinoides

Great job, And welcome to the forum

 

Whatever you do, don't move gloss out of the planters....can we say MESSY!
Great plant though (as long as it's potted)

 

Why wouldn't you take it out of the planter? I like glosso to spreed all over my foreground.

 

Because when I did the stuff went everywhere before I could get it planted.
Maybe I just got a poor one? Dunno?

 

Hard to plant. Just like Dwarf Hairgrass, HM, HC. However....tweezers are your best friend with these. Will take a little bit of doing. Also, depending on how they come out of the filament, you might be able to get dime size portions. That would be beneficial.

 

I have read that you don't want to plant them too shallow or they will take a long time to spread out. I have also read that you can't place them too deep. One person said he literally buried them and they still grew out of the substrate. I would recommend placing them in the substrate with the bottom of the leaves just barely if not touching the substrate. Please let us know how it turns out.

 

I tried that, I have this planting tool that has plastic grippers on the end for planting. No matter what I did the darn thing floated up and fell apart. Thinking I got a dud?
I swore to myself that I would get another next time the lfs gets them in and leave them in the black basket thingy and just get a few>push them under the substrate>which would make it look like a carpet if I got a few of them and stuck them close together.

 

I used a pair of tweezers. I didn't have any problem getting them to stay in the eco complete I was using at the time.

 

my pieces weren't long enough to keep them in place. They would stay put for a brief time but then a corydoras or similar would come along and graze over the top and it would float to the top of the tank.