Trying to prune glosso

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• PO4: 0.15 before dose
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• Dosing: 5 mL iron chelate (0.5 ppm), 10 mL KH2PO4 (0.4 ppm)
  

Notes:
The glossostigma has grown well, sprouting runners that are growing horizontally. The roots, though, do not seem to always penetrate the flourite gravel well, often sitting just above the gravel. The runners then grow on top of each other, so that when you try to peel off one of the layers, all the layers stick to each other and come off together. Then, when you try to replant the runners, the glosso, which tend to float, stick more to your tweezers than to the gravel, and you end up making a mess in your lovely glosso carpet. So, after some frustration, I decided to phase out the glosso and start replacing it with a mix of M. micranthemoides (baby tears) and hairgrass. I ripped out over half the glosso and transplanted over plugs of the hairgrass (hairclub anyone?).

Several weeks ago, I had ordered Ludwigia glandulosa, and that's what I assumed I got, but after looking at several photographs of L. glandulosa, which have almond shaped purple leaves, I realized I received something else. It looks like I have Alternanthera reineckii (Red Temple) instead. When I first got the plant, the leaves were green on top and slightly reddish underneath. The new leaves, though, are growing in a nice red.