Carpet plants
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ZxC
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Neither. Go to the store / online and buy actual carpet plants. Those seeds are not aquatic carpeting plants.
I'll second the fact that they are not carpet plants.
Dry start method if you want to try to grow them, though. I used a small suction cup glass pot with some Fluval plant/shrimp soil. Kept it at a level in the tank where the water keeps the soil moist. Sprinkled the seeds on, kept the lights on the normal cycle, and they grew quite well. Took 4-7 days to germinate. Initially the seeds get wet and create a sort of gel layer around themselves that makes them very sticky.
At one point I posted the adult plant, submersed and emersed growth on a forum and got an ID. Can't remember what/where, though. Maybe it was a hygrophila species, polysperma or something...
Dry start method if you want to try to grow them, though. I used a small suction cup glass pot with some Fluval plant/shrimp soil. Kept it at a level in the tank where the water keeps the soil moist. Sprinkled the seeds on, kept the lights on the normal cycle, and they grew quite well. Took 4-7 days to germinate. Initially the seeds get wet and create a sort of gel layer around themselves that makes them very sticky.
At one point I posted the adult plant, submersed and emersed growth on a forum and got an ID. Can't remember what/where, though. Maybe it was a hygrophila species, polysperma or something...
