it's a fascinating plant actually. it's a fern gametophyte and stuck at the gametophyte stage... really wierd...
But it's pretty common here in nyc now
I comsider riccia to be a weed. lol, hate the stuff XD
Susswassertang doesn't grow anywhere near as fast as Riccia, Sinks as oppose to how riccia floats and tend to stay in one clump rather than getting everywhere
I currently have at least a basketball worth of java moss spread throughout my 15 tanks. That's mixed in with christmas, peacock and Taiwan moss. So.. much...moss haha. Also subwassertang.
I then have the following plants:
Mini java fern
Standard java fern
Narrow leaf java fern
Anubias nana and nana 'micro'
Bolbitis standard
Mini bolbitis
Some kind of rare Australian native aquatic moss
Watersprite
Hydrilla
Hornwort
Duckweed
Darwin River Ambulia
Riccia
Pennywort
I read that they die of easily when the filter current is too strong. your best bet is to get a hair net and net them all together if you want to leave them floating.
and, also, if you tied yours down, they do better in higher light from what I've seen....
Watersprite is super easy to grow. I let mine float in my killifish tank and I have found if it's been rooted previously, it will sort of change its form and lose a lot of its previous leaves in the transition. However, if its under good lighting it grows new leaves at an incredibly fast rate.
I love riccia and so do my killifish. I had heaps of it floating in my sorority but stupidly sold it all. Now I have two pathetic looking chunks I rescued from another tank.
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