Hi all!
This is my first post so be gentle.
I'm just about to start looking for plants for my new tank. The tank is 5ft x 2ft x 2ft and to all intents and purposes it's my first tank.
(Actually, I kept goldfish and a few other hardy cold water fish for years until I moved to a different part of the UK a decade ago and left the tank.......but I did everything wrong: including scrubbing rocks, pressure washing gravel and all but sterilising everything every 6 months for a 'good' clean.....I didn't know any better! Anyway, I now understand quite a lot about about the ecology of a tank etc and)
So, as I say, to all intents and purposes this is my first tank.
To cut to the chase, I bought the tank to go in the brew room at work so my colleagues have something to look at when resting. We're all cricket groundsmen and work with grass so, sad as it sounds, we'd quite like a large part of the planting to look like grass, I.e. a carpet of grass over the substrata. We'll then put some feature plants in too of course.
My question is: what plants should we look at using so it looks most like a lawn? Hair grass grows taller than I'd like, though we might stick a bit of that in around the edges. I like the look of lilaeopsis, and I believe it only grows about 2 inches tall. Is there anything else that you think might interest me?
We've just set the tank up with a soil substrata covered with play sand (I put a open pored geo textile between the two as I intend to get some trumpet snails to stir the sand up etc but didn't want them contaminating the sand with the soil). I'll be maintaining the tank at around 24 or 25 degrees C (until told otherwise!) and I've set up a sump tank and wet/dry filter arrangement.
P.s. I know it's sad but we like grass!
This is my first post so be gentle.
I'm just about to start looking for plants for my new tank. The tank is 5ft x 2ft x 2ft and to all intents and purposes it's my first tank.
(Actually, I kept goldfish and a few other hardy cold water fish for years until I moved to a different part of the UK a decade ago and left the tank.......but I did everything wrong: including scrubbing rocks, pressure washing gravel and all but sterilising everything every 6 months for a 'good' clean.....I didn't know any better! Anyway, I now understand quite a lot about about the ecology of a tank etc and)
So, as I say, to all intents and purposes this is my first tank.
To cut to the chase, I bought the tank to go in the brew room at work so my colleagues have something to look at when resting. We're all cricket groundsmen and work with grass so, sad as it sounds, we'd quite like a large part of the planting to look like grass, I.e. a carpet of grass over the substrata. We'll then put some feature plants in too of course.
My question is: what plants should we look at using so it looks most like a lawn? Hair grass grows taller than I'd like, though we might stick a bit of that in around the edges. I like the look of lilaeopsis, and I believe it only grows about 2 inches tall. Is there anything else that you think might interest me?
We've just set the tank up with a soil substrata covered with play sand (I put a open pored geo textile between the two as I intend to get some trumpet snails to stir the sand up etc but didn't want them contaminating the sand with the soil). I'll be maintaining the tank at around 24 or 25 degrees C (until told otherwise!) and I've set up a sump tank and wet/dry filter arrangement.
P.s. I know it's sad but we like grass!
