Help with Dwarf Hairgrass!

[Pokechoo]

I purchased some Hairgrass and I'm having quite a time trying to grow it. I've almost lost all of it. There is just a few clumps left, I put it on some drift wood, in hopes of it will help. I'm lost. All other plants I have a just beautiful, but the grass....

 

[sam24]

what's your lighting? Are u dosing any ferts? What is your substrate? I tried DHG one time and my fish ate it all! Maybe it's that?

 

[Brian_Nano12g]

DHG needs at least moderate light, preferably high light with co2 and good ferts. What conditions are you trying to grow it in? It will definitely not grow on driftwood.

 

[Pokechoo]

It has the pink light bulb, Flourish substrate with a gravel top layer and I just have a betta in there. I use Flourish liquid fertilizer. It's in about 6.5 pH. I just don't understand, does it need better lighting? It's only in a 5 gallon tank

 

[Brian_Nano12g]

Try to change the pink bulb to a full spectrum one that's preferably 6500k in color temperature. Then start dosing flourish excel along with that flourish comprehensive you're using. If you can rig up a DIY co2 generator that would be good too. There's plenty of info via Google and YouTube on how to construct one and the recipe for the yeast/sugar

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[Pokechoo]

Already done thanks!

 

[aqua_chem]

What kind of bulbs is it though? Color doesn't matter as much as bulb type, eg, T5HO, T8, etc. Replacing a T8 red bulb with a T8 full spectrum won't help as much as upgrading to a T5HO.

But yea, as the others have said, CO2 and light are by far the most common reasons behind total failure to grow, especially with a resource intense plant like DHG.