Dwarf Hair Grass
Plant Profile
Common Name: Dwarf Hairgrass, Eleocharis Parvula
Dwarf Hairgrass is a long‑standing staple in the aquascaping world, thanks to its reliability and versatility in shaping a natural, field-like foreground. With its fine, needle‑thin foliage and tidy growth pattern, it forms a cohesive carpet that spreads by sending out a steady network of runners beneath the substrate, making it great for filling tight gaps around hardscape or creating scattered clusters where shrimp and nano fish love to forage. Highly adaptable, it thrives fully submerged but also performs beautifully in emersed setups like dry starts or Wabi‑Kusa, giving you plenty of flexibility in how you use it.
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Key Features & Benefits
- Recreate a classic, realistic grass lawn aesthetic using its fine, needle-thin blades.
- Enjoy a highly versatile species that adapts beautifully to both submerged aquariums and emersed setups.
- Watch it fill out your foreground naturally as its root system actively pushes out horizontal runners.
Care & Planting Instructions
- Separate larger mats into small, bite-sized portions and plant them roughly an inch apart, burying them about halfway into your substrate.
- Maintain low to high lighting parameters, though higher light will drastically encourage a shorter, thicker carpet.
- Choose to inject pressurized CO2 to accelerate its growth speed and achieve a dense, wall-to-wall foreground.
- Propagate the plant effortlessly by cutting mature new growth along with the roots and moving them to bare spots.
- Master the basics by learning how to properly grow aquarium carpet plants to ensure your new layout fills in quickly, evenly, and stays free of algae.
Quick Facts
Listed information should be treated as general guidelines only. Team Buce Plant encourages you to do thorough research to ensure healthy growth!
- Family Name: Cyperaceae
- Origin: Cosmopolitan (Worldwide)
- Height: 1–2 inches
- Placement: Foreground
- pH: 6.0–7.5
- Temperature: 50–82°F
- Care Level: Easy
- Light Requirements: Low to High
- CO2: Not required but recommended
- Propagation: Cut new growth along with roots
- Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast