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Hemianthus callitrichoides

Price:  £3.25

Aqua points: 3 [read more]
Dimensions: Maximum height 10cm
Model: P2020673
Manufacturer: Aquafleur

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A bright green compact bushy plant with tiny neat little leaves and very fine stems.

Hemianthus callitrichoides is one of the smallest aquarium plants in the world, and creeps over the bottom with millimetre-sized round leaves. An attractive foreground plant for small aquariums, and makes few demands.

Helpful Tip:

  • Try splitting one plant up as much as possible. If planted in small clumps a few centimetres apart, it will spread  and cover the bottom like a carpet.
  • Wondering how much you need for your tank? 1 pot is enough for a 10x10cm patch.

Conditions:

  • Preferred water temperature is 20-28ºC
  • Ideal water chemistry is pH 6-8.4.
  • Can be kept in a high light environment.
  • Suitable in CO2 tanks only.
  • Foreground plant.

A popular choice.

We strongly recommend when purchasing live plants you opt for Express Delivery.

Date Added: 16/05/2013 by Metin Cansever
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Excellent packing, good information, express shipping.Thank you Richard.

Date Added: 15/05/2013 by Roger Banks
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What a fantastic little plant and it looks stunning when planted also came in pristine condition thank you

Date Added: 08/05/2013 by Joseph Thomas
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high quality and quick growing. Very nice.

Date Added: 08/05/2013 by Aaron Cornish
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The plants that arrived were great! They are in my tank now bathing in light and CO2! Hopefully I won't kill them :)

Date Added: 06/05/2013 by George Edwards
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Excellent little plant. Arrived in great condition, just like the photo. Doing great in my tank, a lush dark green. And didn't experience any die off/melting either. Separated it into several clumps and it has carpeted well in a few weeks. It's not the fastest growing, so I am now going to order two more pots. My advice is order a few pots to get a better carpet from the get go :)

Date Added: 09/04/2013 by john singleton
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Great little plant, amazingly bright green and in A1 condition

Date Added: 05/04/2013 by Daniel Gray
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I bought 5 pots of these to carpet my 180L Juwel Rio tank and the quality they arrived to me was second-to-none! Absolutely fantastic. These plants THRIVE really well in CO2 infused planted aquaria where CO2 is directed towards the plant. T5 lights and SeaChem fertiliser (soon to be Neutro+!) is what I am using and already seeing a steady growth of the plants. It is a difficult plant to grow but pressurised CO2 with lights and the proper ferts will make it look lush!

Date Added: 03/04/2013 by Ian Ray
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Lovely looking foreground plant, looks to be very slow growing.

Date Added: 01/04/2013 by Tobias Breithaupt
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grows great for me with and without CO2

Date Added: 01/04/2013 by Jim Davies
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Very healthy plant arrived first class

Date Added: 14/03/2013 by Tobias Breithaupt
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very nice shade of green and a reasonable sized pot

Date Added: 08/03/2013 by Dorian Caba
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Smaller like Tropica pots. But still happy and very quick delivery.Thanks

Date Added: 04/03/2013 by Wendy Richardson
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Plant in perfect condition

Date Added: 03/03/2013 by Gokhan Yuksel
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Arrived in very good conditions and perfectly alive. It started to grow nicely and my two shrimps are now enjoying this developing "lawn" in the tank. They generate a lot of O2 bubbles which I love to watch...

Date Added: 28/02/2013 by Darren Farnden
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This plant was in perfect condition,it was really compact and bushy.Great product for a nano tank.

Date Added: 08/01/2013 by Peter Harris
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Looks great and hoping that it thrives.

Date Added: 22/11/2012 by Coral Vane-wright
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Really lush and green, looks great in the tank.

Date Added: 12/11/2012 by Jean-michel Touche
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very good and healthy plant making "the green machine" apparently the best for plants, look ridiculous

Date Added: 30/10/2012 by Samantha Irvine
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The plants arrived in lovely condition are doing very well

Date Added: 08/10/2012 by lee breakwell
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Lovely plant, well presented

Date Added: 23/09/2012 by paul cox
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arrived in good condition same as pic

Date Added: 17/09/2012 by Mark Gillow
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Very high quality plants best I have seen

Date Added: 03/08/2012 by Robert Redman
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I've bought a lot of this and tried some from other big names but from now on I will only buy from Aqua Essentials. I have bought a good number recently and they have all been in perfect health and in fantastic condition. Well packaged and in good quantities. Thank you once again Richard!

Date Added: 11/07/2012 by Martin Wolf
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3 PERFECT specimens, growing so large they were hanging from their pot.

Date Added: 25/05/2012 by Robert Redman
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Very well packaged and arrived looking healthy. Lots of plant lets allowing a good coverage. Was perhaps a little pale for a couple of days but that's to be expected. Chopped, pruned and planted and within a few days had settled with lots of new growth.

Date Added: 13/12/2011 by Andy Wickenden
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Fast delivery.Plants arrived very well packed,fresh with no discolour or damage.Have lost a little colour since planting and not a lot of growth but this I believe is down to my aquarium setup.Will shop from Aquaessentials again.

Date Added: 11/07/2011 by Shaun White
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Super condition and well packaged little plant. Growing well and expanding in size. Very happy, thanks.

Date Added: 04/07/2011 by Tien Kiong Dang
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Bought 3 pots, turned a bit yellow while transforming. After 2 days growth was observed and after 2 weeks, they are close to fully carpeting my nano tank (with AE fertilisers and CO2). Very happy thanks to Aqua Essential.

Date Added: 28/02/2011 by Clare Costello
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Perfect little plant received in perfect condition. Size doubled within ten days. Will be buying more!

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Guest
Does this plant carpet well? I'm looking for something that stays low.

 
Guest
would this plant manage with natural light and a low level lamp?

 
Staff

Yes it carpets very well given the correct conditions. In fact this is one of the reasons it's so popular because of the way it carpets beautifully.


 
Staff

Sadly not. It likes medium to high light and CO2 in order to flourish.


 
Guest
does it need CO2?

 
Staff

Yes, it needs CO2 - lots of it preferably


 
Guest
does this plant grow well in gravel

 
Staff

providing you give it good CO2 and fertilisers yes. It will do better in a complete substrate like Colombo Flora-Base


 
Guest
Would it grow ok with easycarbo 2.2w per gallon lighting and ferts? I'm not too concerned how long it takes to carpet I just don't want it to die.

 
Staff
Probably not. HC needs CO2 and by that I mean pressurised

 
Guest
i am planning a iwagumi aquascape in a aquanano40 55ltr tank (40cmx40cmx40cm) how many.much of this plant would you recommend purchasing in order to provide full even coverage of the aquascape. thnx

 
Staff
1 pot is enough for an area 15x15cm so in an area 45x45cm you would need 9 pots :)

 
Guest
hi there i am the same person who asked the question above, i am wondering if the lighting that comes standard with the aquanano 40 would be powerful enough for baby dwarf tears, it is an 18w light for a 55 ltr tank

 
Staff
It's not lighting that is so important for this plant but CO2 - this is far more important


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