Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Riccia
Riccia fluitans
Photo: Autor desconocido · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature15–28 °C
- pH6–8
- Adult size5 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Ricciaceae
- Origin
- Cosmopolitan
- Size
- 1–5 cm (clumps)
- Temperature
- 15 – 28°C
- pH
- 6.0 – 8.0
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- medium – high
- CO2
- Recommended to be kept submerged
- Fertilization
- average
- Growth
- fast
- Position
- floating or anchored to rocks
- Propagation
- fragmentation
Notes: A liverwort that forms light green clumps. When tied with netting to a rock, it creates mats with sparkling oxygen bubbles. When floating, it serves as a refuge for fry.
