Name: Glosso (Glossostigma elatinoides) Tissue Culture
Brand: Aquatic Arts
SKU: PLANTTCGLOSSELAT1
Price: 7.99 USD
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Glosso is a rewarding and beautiful foreground plant that is perfect for the dedicated aquarist!

Glosso (Glossostigma elatinoides) is a dense and vibrant green carpeting plant that looks particularly excellent in the foregound of any planted aquarium. This charming little plant features tiny, oval-shaped leaves. It is a fast-growing plant under optimal conditions, and it will carpet all high-light areas of the aquarium foreground. It is perfect for use as protective refuge for fry in a high-light aquarium where fish or invertebrates are breeding.

Glosso requires very high lighting in order to thrive and grow correctly. With proper lighting, its stems will only grow to roughly one inch in height and the plant will grow horizontally across the substrate. With inadequate lighting, its stems will grow horizontally and have a generally disheveled appearance. It must be planted deeply in nutrient (especially iron) rich substrate and it also should be provided with CO2 supplementation. This plant is considered more difficult to grow than many other plants, so it may not be ideal for beginning live plant enthusiasts.

This listing is for the tissue culture form of Glosso. Tissue cultures are superior to traditional forms of aquarium plants in many ways. They are produced in a completely sterile environment which eliminates the possibility of them carrying pest snails or algae spores. They have a shelf life (before introduction to the aquarium) of several months if properly maintained and they are housed in a nutrient gel until introduced to the aquarium. To introduce a tissue culture plant to the aquarium, simply rinse off as much nutrient gel as possible, then plant as usual. The nutrient gel will not harm your aquarium.

Packaging may vary. Tissue Culture plants may arrive in bag or cup form.

What We Like About This Plant:

Tissue cultures contain no unwanted pest animals or algae
Superb carpeting plant
Bright green coloration
Challenging high-tech, high-light plant
Excellent refuge for fry

Care Guidelines:

Temperature: 72 – 78° F (22 - 26° C)
pH: 5.0 - 7.0
Lighting: Very High
Origin: Lab-grown tissue culture, but indigenous to New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania
Aquarium Placement: Foreground
Care: High

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For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.

UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.

Shipping Schedule for this service

UPS 1 Day: Monday through Thursday

Current Handling Time:

1-9 business days

Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.

Shipping Rate

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