Staurogyne repens is one of the most fascinating and enduring aquarium plants. It has thick coarse leaves of saturated green color. This is a small plant, so it will perfectly do for decoration of the tank front side and its middle as well as to create some focus points to draw the observer’s attention.
Glossostigma elatinoides (also called glosso) is one of the most popular fast-growing aquarium plants used in the forefront of a tank. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good-looking green carpet on the tank bottom.
Dwarf hairgrass (Eleocharis parvula) is one of the best aquarium plants, if you need to create a ‘real lawn’ in a tank. This is a representative of coastal-aquatic vegetation, which natural habitat spreads all over the world and this fact consequently shows that the plant is easy to keep.
Due to its ability to cover the substrate surface with thick green carpet, Dwarf hairgrass is more often used in the foreground of a tank, which helps to imitate thick green lawns or grassplots.
Anubias is an inconsiderable in number genus of tropical aquatic (paludal) plants of Araceae family. This family also includes cryptocorynes to which we have already devoted a separate article.
What these plants have in common, is their ability to grow both under water and in semi-submerged state. In the wild Anubias species grow in their emersed state most part of the year and only during the rain season the plants get completely submerged.
