It will carpet but the leaves are a totally different shape than dwarf baby tears hemianthus callitrichoides pictures below hemianthus micranthemoides giant baby tears pearlweed hm hemianthus callitrichoides dwarf baby tears hc hope that helps.
Hc carpet emersed.
Will hemianthus callitrichoides require co2 to carpet if a part of it is emersed.
The emersed part will be misted and fogged regularly in the paludarium.
The carpet of glossostigma in the picture below is grown using 150w metal halides hung 2 feet above the tank.
Growing hc also need luck some can grow it without cold water but some with cold water also cannot make them flourish.
Mosses in particular have very different emersed structures and can be quite cool looking.
17 days from planting three small 4x4cm pots of hc.
I have grown hc emersed and submersed it it loses some of its leaves but doesn t take forever to grow back.
With excel and ample lighting the hairgrass was spreading much much faster and denser on submersion.
Light will be medium high.
Sometimes you can see the tiny white flowers in the axils.
Cuba has smaller leaves and a bit narrower.
Glosso will be a better choice if it is frst time trying.
Hey all the title says it all.
I don t think emersed growth works as well for hairgrass in terms of getting a very thick coverage like with hc.
Another two weeks and i expect it will be covered.
It s almost tempted me to start a palaudarium.
Its also known as pearl weed.
Just started my hc carpet 1 5week ago going to complete the emerse to submerge stage.
All fine in about a week or 2.
This light level is probably excessive.
This video is of my little h.
But it does demonstrate that high light no co2 doesn t always translate into an automatic algae fest that is if the plants are growing well.
Majority in the trade or aquaria market sells cuba in the emersed form and it has roundish leaves.
This method should work well for all mosses most grasses and most other carpet plants like hemianthus callitrichoides and glossostigma elatinoides.
As for hc you will need high light and lower temp so that it will grow better.