Riccia Fluitans Carpet

This plant became famous because takashi amano showing this moss in his tank.

Riccia fluitans carpet.

Extra cost for flat pebbles and riccia line net if needed. For id purposes dwarf riccia is on the left riccia fluitians is on the right to attach riccia to an object follow these steps i was aiming for a large carpet for a hilly effect use a few of these on a smaller scale and put together on the substrate. Riccia moss ht. Member since aug 2014.

Japanese takashi amano has inspired many aquarium owners to keep the 1 5 cm tall cosmopolitic liverwort riccia fluitans submerged. Crystalwort riccia fluitans is one of my top favorite plants to add to an enclosure. It can be kept down by tying it to a stone with a piece of fishing line but new shoots always grow towards the surface so it may be necessary to prune it with scissors. Most hobbyists like myself use crystalwort either as a floating or carpeting plant.

It is a beautiful carpet short term and the pearling is amazing but long term it is a pain. It doesn t ever actually grab onto any thing like moss does. Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums. This plant is an excellent alternative to mosses like java moss.

Alternatively riccia can also be used as a foreground carpet if the hair nets are weighed down with small stones. 500 aquarium carpet plant riccia fluitans. Riccia is one of those plants that everyone has to try at least once so go for it. When grown this way this liverwort will require frequent trimming with a pair of scissors since it grows very rapidly and dead areas could form if not enough light is penetrating the mass which would tend to cause the healthy new growth to detach itself and float.