Glosso and Riccia tips please

[BrkD]

as stated in the title of the thread. i need tips on how to keep glosso and riccia.
how do i plant/care for glosso to make it spread throughout the entire tank? i want a nice thick glosso carpet. would riccia need to be tied down like moss? will riccia stick onto driftwood, rocks and etc after a couple of weeks? and would riccia clog the filter intake tube and impellers? those are the main questions that i have so far.

 

[fresh_newby]

Hello fellow New Yorker

Glosso will form a nice carpet with lighting and nutrients. You need to plant each plantlet and space them all out in the substrate so that they caqn set out runners to fill in.
Riccia, by nature, is a floating plant. It does not have rots per se so it will not adhere to anything you tie it to. You cannot plant it in substrate or attach it to wood without it eventually sprouting and floating to the top <then you spend a lot of time picking out riccia.>
Anyway, that said, if you feel you want to grow it anyway, i find decent results from buying those meshy bath/shower puffs and opening it up. Cut out some of the mesh and put a nice layer of riccia over a large rock then cover the riccia and the rock with the shower mesh and sew the back<underneath> closed. The riccia will sprout out of there into a lawn, and you will have a little movable foreground....the drawbacks are that they will let lose in small bits and float to the top, so you will have to net it out. Give the rock a haricut from time to time to minimize this shedding.

 

[BrkD]

alright thanks for the input. but how far apart do i ahve to separate each plantlet? and do you know any LFS that sells riccia or many other varieties of plants in nyc?

 

[Mgamer20o0]

for riccia i use a rock or a saucer and put netting over it. soon it gross over the netting and you cant see it.

 

[fresh_newby]

alright thanks for the input. but how far apart do i ahve to separate each plantlet? and do you know any LFS that sells riccia or many other varieties of plants in nyc?

Separate them by say half an inch. <glosso>

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/swap-n-shop/ go there and place a post saying WTB glosso and riccia ...someone will respond with it. You will likely not find it in NY.