Manicuring a Marsilea quadrifolia (or similar) lawn?

**BSS** · 03-17-2005, 01:14 AM

My Marsilea lawn is finally gotten nice and thick, and I'm quite happy with it. So, how do I keep it that way now? Do I just occasionally snip out bad looking leaves? Should I be "thinning" it (whatever that might mean) out periodically? Oh, what to do, what to do

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I'm enclosing a current shot. As I just turned the lights back on, I caught a good bunch of MTS grazing as well as my favored Corydoras sterbai lounging on the lawn.

Brian.

**BSS** · 03-17-2005, 05:48 PM

How about techniques for maintaining similar plant lawns?

Looking for glosso maintenance routines, didn't turn up too much either. Here is one post: http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...losso+maintain

It doesn't seem to offer much in term of maintenance, other than uprooting it all and starting over

. Not the answer I'd like to hear. But, then again, it likely is what it is!

Momotaro · 03-17-2005, 08:37 PM

I'd thin it out occasionally. I'd remove some of the older growth, or growth that is effected by algae to allow newer plants to fill in a little.

I think if you did that, you'd always have a healthy foreground.

Mike

03-17-2005, 01:14 AM	#1
BSS Wannabe Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (12/100%) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Oviedo, FL USA Posts: 1,600	Manicuring a Marsilea quadrifolia (or similar) lawn? My Marsilea lawn is finally gotten nice and thick, and I'm quite happy with it. So, how do I keep it that way now? Do I just occasionally snip out bad looking leaves? Should I be "thinning" it (whatever that might mean) out periodically? Oh, what to do, what to do ? I'm enclosing a current shot. As I just turned the lights back on, I caught a good bunch of MTS grazing as well as my favored Corydoras sterbai lounging on the lawn. Brian. Attached Thumbnails __________________ 46g bf, XP3 w/ vertical spray bar, CO2 w/ SMS122 & diffuser,100% Flourite, 96w+55w cf AHS, AGA Member Last edited by BSS; 03-17-2005 at 05:46 PM..

03-17-2005, 05:48 PM	#2
BSS Wannabe Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (12/100%) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Oviedo, FL USA Posts: 1,600	How about techniques for maintaining similar plant lawns? Looking for glosso maintenance routines, didn't turn up too much either. Here is one post: http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...losso+maintain It doesn't seem to offer much in term of maintenance, other than uprooting it all and starting over . Not the answer I'd like to hear. But, then again, it likely is what it is! __________________ 46g bf, XP3 w/ vertical spray bar, CO2 w/ SMS122 & diffuser,100% Flourite, 96w+55w cf AHS, AGA Member

03-17-2005, 08:37 PM	#3
Momotaro Doesn't like Kool-Aid (View User Tanks) PTrader: (52/100%) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hawthorne, New Jersey Posts: 10,110	I'd thin it out occasionally. I'd remove some of the older growth, or growth that is effected by algae to allow newer plants to fill in a little. I think if you did that, you'd always have a healthy foreground. Mike __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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