Good Carpeting Plant For Beginner...

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good carpeting plant that doesn't have particularly high lighting demands. I have a pretty basic setup with a 30cm Arcadia Classica Stretch LED on my aquanano 40. I dose with easycarbo and profito as directed and have pretty good plant growth, though they are 'easy' plants (anacharis, cabomba, hygrophila polysperma, Java moss and Java fern). My downoi is a little leggy, which may be indicative of low light levels. I have a sand substrate with no soil or compost underlayer.

Thanks!

Thanks Richard, whilst I'd love the shorter plants I think your suggestions would work really well.

Staurogyne repens looks like a good possibility, do let us know how it goes.

My Sagittaria subulata and Echinodorus tenellus spread so quickly that I have to pull some of them out from tanks with Corydoras to give the little cats somewhere to rootle around.

Thanks Helen. Do either of you think that mixing all three might give an interesting mixed carpet or will it just look a shambles? I think it could be really effective if I can get the balance right...

I like to give my cories a choice of open space and planted areas, they do rootle around among the low plants searching for bits of food that get lodged there, but I also like them to have open sand and gravel to roam over.

I don't even attempt to "design" the look of my tanks, I want them to look like a natural underwater scene, a tangle of plants, bogwood etc., rather than a neat garden. I started all of them in much the same way with a variety of plants, but some plants have done better in different tanks for some reason so that they now all look different. Even Java moss has taken over large areas in some tanks, covering the bogwood, but has vanished from others. As an ecologist, I find this more interesting than trying to create a pretty picture.