
Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Stringy Moss
Leptodictyum riparium
Photo: Show_ryu · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature10–26 °C
- pH6–8
- Adult size10 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Amblystegiaceae
- Origin
- Northern Hemisphere
- Size
- 3 – 10 cm
- Temperature
- 10 – 26°C
- pH
- 6.0 – 8.0
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- low – medium
- CO2
- Not required
- Fertilization
- low
- Growth
- fast
- Position
- tied down or floating
- Propagation
- fragmentation
Notes: Known as “stringy moss”: thin, light green stems that sway with the current. Grows quickly.





