What to do with Riccia?

Jag1980

Jag1980

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I just sold 80% of the clump I had and now I got this loose bunch of Riccia.. What do I do with it now?

It was tied down to my driftwood cave but I have removed it from my tank to make room for plants.

I jsut found this here: http://www.aquariaplants.com/plantingtips.htm

Anyone try this with Riccia? Looks liek a pretty cool idea.
 
That looked awesome!

or you can buy a hairnet, cut it up, stick riccia under it than a stone and allow it to grow.

Great idea to, might have to buy some from a craft store. For my mosses, or maybe pelia :S.
 
That's what I always do when I trim a moss to a short unusable length, I wrap it around a stone or piece of driftwood. I know someone who made a whole field of Christmas moss by wrapping it around small slate pieces. You could do the same with riccia.
 
Bk828 said:
What to do with riccia?
I would through it out lol but thats just me.. Hate its weed like growth..

But get a bath sponge and use it as netting to sandwich it on a rock.
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lol.. I like it, it's bright green and pearls really easily.
Just got to be carful with it so it doesn't make a mess :thm:

Maybe I can try and make a Riccia wall? :headbang2:
 
You could just let it float, the way nature intended...

It's actually very pretty as a floater- it forms clumps about .5-1" high and 1-3" or more broad. I've seen huge sheets of it in some limnocrene-type springs.
 
I like the look of it. I bought some once, attached to one of those weight grills they sell the mosses on, but it just died off in my tank within a week or so. Recently, when I bought a potted bunch of rotalla it seems some of the stry bits in the sale tank had clung to a stem so I got a little Y shaped branch of it for free. It's already grown to a clump the size of my thumb tip, LOL! I'm going to make use of it in the foreground.
 
Well I decided to do this:

I was thinking if it grows out I can make some nice fluffy green strips on the sides of the tank on the substrate and the if it works out I will do the front. Or i can make rows like a corn crop and plant my plants between the rows :)

We'll see after a month or so if it grows good..

I would like to cover a rock with it but I don't have th room on the substrate floor. Floating would be cool too but it blocks out too much light below.

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