What requirements must be met to grow riccia?

[NeonFlux]

60 Gallon Acrylic tank
2x65 with 2x17 florescent lighting.
Flourish
Flourish excel

This is allll I have. :O

I'm thinking about a carpet of riccia would look awesome

[Mgamer20o0]

i have some in a 10 gal floating under shop lights.

[Bk828]

looks like your setup is good for riccia, you might want to dose some ferts whether it be trace or NPK. Also with that lighting make sure that the carbon is always at the right level in the tank or else you will be seeing bba growing on lower parts of it. How tall is the tank??
I had riccia on the bottom of my 10g before and once i got really bushy the bottom started dying off, so best suggestion is trim it weekly.

[Fordtrannyman]

http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/details.php?id=50&category=genus&spec=Riccia
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/details.php?id=99&category=genus&spec=Riccia
http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_riccia.php

[NeonFlux]

looks like your setup is good for riccia, you might want to dose some ferts whether it be trace or NPK. Also with that lighting make sure that the carbon is always at the right level in the tank or else you will be seeing bba growing on lower parts of it. How tall is the tank??
I had riccia on the bottom of my 10g before and once i got really bushy the bottom started dying off, so best suggestion is trim it weekly.
18 inches tall. What is NPK by the way?

[Bk828]

nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus

I noticed that when i was dosing NPK + Flourish + Iron + CO2 my riccia grew fast, there was more dense branching and the color was nice and green, as opposed to when there was none of those factors but the co2, my riccia became a different shade of green, the branches became larger and just looked weird.

[NeonFlux]

nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus

I noticed that when i was dosing NPK + Flourish + Iron + CO2 my riccia grew fast, there was more dense branching and the color was nice and green, as opposed to when there was none of those factors but the co2, my riccia became a different shade of green, the branches became larger and just looked weird.

Ahh... So trace contains nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus?

[Bk828]

Ahh... So trace contains nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus?

trace does contain those things but its a very small %, trace is used to supply the tank with micro nutrients like Ca, Mg, B, Cl, Fe. But to get a full effect of NPK one should dose the actual ferts for it

Example:

Regular Flourish
Nitrogen .07%
Phosphate .01%
Potassium .37%
+++ others

Flourish Nitrogen - 1.5% (+2% potassium)

Flourish Phosphorous - .3% (+.2% potassium)

Flourish Potassium - 5.8%

[Mgamer20o0]

no pnk are the macros and there is trace which Flourish covers

[NeonFlux]

trace does contain those things but its a very small %

Example:

Regular Flourish
Nitrogen .07%
Phosphate .01%
Potassium .37%

Flourish Nitrogen - 1.5% (+2% potassium)

Flourish Phosphorous - .3% (+.2% potassium)

Flourish Potassium - 5.8%


Should I buy them all separately?

[Bk828]

You should get it all to cover everything.
I have smaller tanks so I am dosing liquid ferts for now (Regular flourish, Flourish Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Iron) once thats up ill be looking into dry ferts but still would dose regular flourish for trace elements

[NeonFlux]

Flourish
Flourish Trace
Flourish Iron
Flourish potassium
Flourish Excel
Flourish Nitrogen
Flourish Phosphorus

Whooo Talking big money here

All I have right now is just

Flourish

I'm going to buy excel tomorrow, but is Flourish and excel enough? Can't I just double or triple dose flourish? Ima get a 4 Liter flourish. For everything is just too much... I cant buy so many things online lol my mom will complain. then my dad sees it then I get in trouble. I already got lucky with the lights but for all these trace elements and the price from seachem is a little pricey when added up

[Bk828]

Try and do regular flourish and excel, see how its growing and all, if its fine then stick with just that. But dont overdose flourish or else you will be seeing algae for sure.

[NeonFlux]

Alrighty. I'll be buying the other elements slowly with time. Don't want to rush things...

[Bk828]

if this is for the 60g then when you start getting the NPK look into dry (rexrigg ferts)

[NeonFlux]

Okay thanks

[NeonFlux]

Flourish Nitrogen
Flourish Phosphorous
Flourish Potassium

Got these :)