So I have a vision for my 90 Gallon discus tank. Its used to planted with tons of different types of plants in some seachem flourite gravel. Now my tank got sick and had to move my plants and discus to another tank. I also took to opportunity to remove the gravel and switch it with Seachem black onyx sand. Now I am running a pro series cannister, air pump, and a tek light with 4 HO T5 bulbs. No C02
Now I have a vision for a very simple tank with a few pieces of drift wood, rocks and simple ground cover for the tank. Grown cover like grass I am not sure of the exact name of the plants to are considered ground cover. I would like to know what type of ground cover I could get that would spread everywhere and fill the ground and that will thrive in my tank specifications. I would also like to have some kind of moss of the rocks.
If anyone would help or give me an action plan that would be great
Thanks
You can either use hair grass (Eleocharis parvula) or micro-chainsword (Echinodorus tenellus) - both are grass-like in appearance, yet slightly different. Hair grass is native to discus habitats, E. tenellus will do fine too.
Moss is a bit more tricky, most prefer cooler temperature. But you can just try any moss you get your hands on and check out if they can tolerate your tanks climate.
Dwarf hair grass need some time to adjust, but will thrive in the right condition. Depending on your tank condition, you are probably looking at 6 to 12 months to cover foreground of 90gal. the more plantlet you start with the faster it spread.
I notice you have 4 T5, are they 55W each? If you are not running CO2 and you get an algae outbreak, it is hard to clean dwarf hair grass. You pretty much have to chop it down like mowing the lawn and wait until it grows again.