Key success factors
- At least medium light levels.
- Regular all round fertilization – as a fast grower, it can get pale leaves if fertilization is inadequate.
- CO2 injection makes this plant much easier to grow, without CO2 injection, the leaves are smaller and the clumps tend to be less dense.
- Not picky about water parameters.
Propagation & pruning
Hydrocotyle tripartita spreads rapidly by runners when growth conditions are favourable. Runners should be cut as soon as they appear if the aquarist does not want the plant to spread to a particular area.
Each stem with root can be separated and planted as a separate plant. It is important to retain the entire stem, leaf and root parts when propagating.
As the clump grows, older leaves may deteriorate, yellow or be attacked by algae – these should be cut away when pruning. Due to the rapid propagation rate of the plant as a whole – deep pruning is easy to do, removing old growth while replanting the top fresh shoots
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