These plants work well at the front of your tank providing the foreground for your aquascape.
Carpeting and colored plants for aquascaping.
Dwarf baby tears dwarf baby tears technically known as hemianthus callitrichoides is probably my favorite carpet plant.
A single antler bud of riccia fluitans can reproduce a colony.
If you search for aquascapes online you will notice that many aquascapers use micranthemum to create verdant green slopes that mimic a grassy hill or mountain.
Although it s naturally a floating liverwort it will grow underwater when completely submerged and aquarists can tie it to objects so that it then grows as a mat.
Hemianthus callitrichoides is often abbreviated to hc is the main carpet plant in the aquascape.
Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums.
This carpeting plant will creep to form a beautiful mat in due time.
However crystalworth can grow as a carpet plant when submerged underwater.
Micranthemum commonly known as monte carlo is an aquarium plant with extremely small leaves making it an ideal foreground carpeting plant.
In aquascape they tie this carpeting plant with a fishing line to some objects to make it stays in place and grow in a horizontal pattern.
The stems of water wisteria can grow up to 20 inches tall and 10 inches wide.