Lilaeopsis novea-zealandia

Description

Lilaeopsis novea-zealandia is a tropical aquarium plant. It is much like a grass with its short narrow leaves. This plant is easy to keep. It can grow to around 5cm in height and will thrive in medium to high light levels.

The ideal temperature range for his plant is between 20 – 28 degrees Celsius.

Being a short plant, it is best placed in the foreground of an aquarium.

All of our potted plants arrive with rockwool around the roots. Please take the plants out of the pot and gently remove the rockwool to prevent the roots from rotting. Plant the roots into a suitable substrate to guarantee proper growth.

This plant comes in a 5cm pot. It is suitable for any size aquaria and paludaria.

Given the right conditions this plant will creep across the substrate. A lot of people keep this plant to have a carpeted area that can look much like a patch of grass. These planted areas are excellent for shrimp to hide away in. In return, tropical shrimp, like cherry or crystal shrimp will help to keep the plants clean.

Adding plants to your fish tank can help to keep the tank cleaner. This is because aquarium plants, in part, utilise fish waste to grow. So they can help to lower nitrate and phosphate levels. If your waste levels are high, we would recommend regular maintenance to help reduce them.

Light, CO2 & nutrition

To keep your plants flourishing you need to make sure that they get enough light, CO2 and nutrition.

Lilaeopsis novea-zealandia like medium to high light level intensity. For most tanks, 6 – 8 hours of light is about right because if you leave the lights on for too long you can end up with algae problems.

This plant is not too fussy about CO2. However, if you have a CO2 system it will benefit your tropical plants and it will help this plant to grow and carpet better.

We recommend feeding all aquarium plants with a high quality plant food like Ferropol or Plant Food+.

Please note that the photo is a typical example of this plant. These are living plants, as a result, they do vary slightly.