Riccia Fluitans Carpet

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.

Riccia fluitans carpet. 500 aquarium carpet plant riccia fluitans. It doesn t ever actually grab onto any thing like moss does. This plant is an excellent alternative to mosses like java moss. Extra cost for flat pebbles and riccia line net if needed.

This plant became famous because takashi amano showing this moss in his tank. Member since aug 2014. Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums. Most hobbyists like myself use crystalwort either as a floating or carpeting plant.

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. Japanese takashi amano has inspired many aquarium owners to keep the 1 5 cm tall cosmopolitic liverwort riccia fluitans submerged. Alternatively riccia can also be used as a foreground carpet if the hair nets are weighed down with small stones. Crystalwort riccia fluitans is one of my top favorite plants to add to an enclosure.

Riccia has more than 180 species and mostly not water plants. 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. Although it s naturally a floating liverwort it will grow underwater when completely submerged and aquarists can tie it to objects so that it then grows as a mat. Riccia is one of those plants that everyone has to try at least once so go for it.