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. Riccia is one of those plants that everyone has to try at least once so go for it. It is a beautiful carpet short term and the pearling is amazing but long term it is a pain. Japanese takashi amano has inspired many aquarium owners to keep the 1 5 cm tall cosmopolitic liverwort riccia fluitans submerged. This plant became famous because takashi amano showing this moss in his tank.

It doesn t ever actually grab onto any thing like moss does. Member since aug 2014. 500 aquarium carpet plant riccia fluitans. Crystalwort riccia fluitans is one of my top favorite plants to add to an enclosure.

Most hobbyists like myself use crystalwort either as a floating or carpeting plant. Alternatively riccia can also be used as a foreground carpet if the hair nets are weighed down with small stones. 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. Extra cost for flat pebbles and riccia line net if needed.

Riccia fluitans also known as floating cystalwort is being used as a carpeting plant more and more frequently in aquariums. 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. It has a very mossy and vivid look that helps accentuate any tank. This plant is an excellent alternative to mosses like java moss.