[Coralite]

Eriocaulon '*****'s Blood' preferred care requirements

Hi all,
I am resuscitating a tiny sprig of Erio. *****'s Blood from a friend's plant tank and I would like to know what you have found makes this plant really take off. I am keeping it in cooler water, high flow, high light environment with daily excel dosing but no CO2. The substrate is regular grade amazonia I with tons of crushed flourish tabs for the base. KH ~1, GH ~3.

The plant is growing at an appreciable rate but the leaves are still hairgrass small. I am looking for any pointers to fatten up the plant and encourage it to grow larger thicker leaves. Thanks in advance.

 

[Coralite]

Eriocaulon (Trithuria) sp. "*****'s Blood"

 

[Coralite]

Isn't that a horrid name?

I agree. You'd think that with two vivid names it would be a more colorful plant but the red coloration at the base of the leaves is not really that noticeable.

Thanks for the tips ashappard, I will try to weed out the ErioVB's companions to slower growing plants. I have very little to no algae growth but as with other Erios, I find that the plants tend to trap and accumulate debris and detritus. It's important to keep algae and detritus from building up, especially with the especially fine leaves of the VB.

 

[Coralite]

Here is a pic of my little ErioVB plantlet. The substrate is regular amazonia and the plants in the background are average size C.parva. The plant is about twice as big as it was a month ago. Hopefully it will continue to grow at this pace.