What's been your experience w/ Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)

[brendan]

I'm in the process of filling in my planted tank and I really like the look of Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans). Has anyone had experience with this and if so what it a success or failure?

TIA

 

[vega]

Its quite easy, you need lots of light.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Yes, you need lots of light and co2. However, the stuff is a high maintenance. First you have to tie it to a rock or driftwood (or some people have some mesh contraption to hold it in place I don't know much about it). Then you must trim it regularly, or the bottom part rots away, and it comes loose from therock or wood and floats to the surface. I always have some going in at least one of my tanks, but to have a lot, an entire "lawn" for instance, I could never keep up with the maintenance. JMO.

 

[madasafish]

Riccia is a PITA IMO. Amano used it, but I think after he took pics, the stuff probably proved might hard to upkeep. I had it for a while, but the only way I could keep it alive and well was by letting it float. And it really does flake off all the time. Not worth it in my book. Get java moss instead--it *stays* on rocks, wood, decorations, and it doesn't require high light at all!

 

[intensity68]

My fish (some of them)just liked to nibble at it and watch it float to the top

 

[LAGlocker]

I have riccia in one of my tanks, I dont try to tie it down or anything, just let it float. And I throw away alot of it every week or so, it grows so that it blocks the light from the rest of my plants, so if I dont throw it away my other plants start diein off