Dwarf baby tears (HC Cuba)
Hemianthus callitrichoides
PlantsFreshwater
- Care level
- Demanding
- Maximum size
- 4 cm
- Temperature
- 20–26 °C
- pH
- 5.5–7
- Light
- High
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
Care at a glance
HC Cuba is the smallest carpeting plant in the hobby: minute round leaves on creeping stems that together form a velvety green cloth. Under strong light it produces so much oxygen that the carpet becomes covered in glittering bubbles.
It is a demanding plant: it asks for strong light, CO2 and a nutrient-rich substrate, or it weakens and detaches. Plant it in small tufts with a little space between them, and trim a mat that has grown too thick in good time, or it will come loose from below and float up.
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