BEST Aquarium Live Plants - RICCIA Fluitans
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Riccia Fluitans is an Aquarium Live Plant made famous by Takashi Armano, who used it in an unusual way as a carpeting plant, I got mine accidently and keep mine floating, but I'm still liking it anyway.
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First! LOL!
I've never had Riccia fluitans in any of my tanks, but this video has inspired me to try it out. Thanks, Colin!
LOL…...An Honour and a Privilege to Pin you Andrew :)
It's sorta easy to use as a carpeting plant. Just take a clump floating around on the surface, push it down to the bottom and set a small rock on it to hold it down. When it gets too big just replace it with a new clump.
That’s an amazing looking tank! I love how it looks like 3 levels or steps. Beautiful!!
This tank looks better in person than I can film with my phone camera. Great to see you mate, glad you like it :)
I get this 2 years old. This plant is fairly new to me. Yes it eye catching. Thank you. I have it floating I wanted it for nano fry and shrimplets to hide in. Plus again it's pretty.
yes, eye catching and very pretty plant :)
I was looking for native plants this year, and Riccia was on my list. I didn't find it, and was pretty bummed, was gonna wait for next summer. Then the craziest thing happened, in one of my quarantine jars of some different collections a spore must have sprouted because the riccia just appeared. I couldn't believe it! I've heard people say that the north American is not as good as the japanese, I guess I'll find out first hand
Mine started as 1 strand mixed in with other plants. 🌿🌱
just bought some of this for my amano tank before i realized it was for shimp! i love how fluffy this stuff is, wish me luck carpetting haha
Good luck!
Nice Nice Nice
Thankyou, thankyou :)
I love riccia. I had it netted onto rocks a long time ago in a 40g but it eventually all broke loose and floated. It was beautiful either way. My shrimp loved it too. I may have to get more now that you have reminded me of how lovely it looks in a tank.
It is very, very pretty :)
I just had literally one little leave stuck in some plants that i bought.Now a couple months later it is already a bush great and easy plant.
That's EXACTLY how I got it too!!
Hitchiker 😁
Excellent choice! Any fry loves Riccia 👌👌
Hola Carlos, always a joy to hear from you my friend :)
Ditto! 😊😊
Nicely done! Thanks for sharing. :-)
What was nice, was that I never intended to have any Riccia, but 1 tiny fragment smuggled itself into this tank with some other plants I did buy.
Aquariums are full of surprises :)
@@AussieAquatic They certainly are!
Dear Colin:
My cherry and Amano shrimp would love this plant. Unfortunately, my green hair algae would, too. Once I get that sorted, perhaps I'll try this, lovely plant.
Thank you for giving us a terrific, species profile of crystalwort (Riccia fluitans) and showing us how well it's doing in your, amazing set-up.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
Hi mate, being a naturally floating plant, this might actually further reduce your algae problem.
I bought some type of sword grass and the teeeeniest piece, less than 1cm single branch was on it, I didn't even notice it for a few weeks, but over the course of a year I now have a 20 x 20 cm pad of it. Kind of neat for free lol.
Mine was a single tiny stowaway piece too...…..and boy does it grow :)
Incredible , The beauty of these is difficult to tell
Thankyou my friend :)
This is a plant I haven't really known when I was looking at when I saw it in aquariums. It can be used as a carpet and floating plant? I like the way it looks. I loved watching shrimp interact with it.I think this is another plant I would definitely like to try Riccia fluitens! Nice Colin! i enjoyed the video! I hope you've have a very blessed and beautiful day! Thanks for sharing my friend!👍🌿🐟🌱🙏
Duckweed, Riccia and Dwarf Hairgrass all came into my tanks accidentally as fragments I did not buy, with other plants I did buy, and they took off!!!........also becoming my most popular videos along the way. Pretty funny really :)
@@AussieAquatic
pretty funny and
Pretty cool!!!👍🌱🐟🌿😁
Ooo beautiful! I've been meaning to give riccia a shot. Thanks for talking about it. Love the editing too. :)
Your shrimp will Love it. I have been getting some editing tutorials from an American FishTuber ☺☺☺
@@AussieAquatic Ooo, your hard work definitely shows!
A Gamer's Wife can you a video on Riccia?
Thank You good plant!
It can get everywhere if you let run wild, but very attractive :)
That is Superb filming, beautifully presented :)
Very kind of you Jose. I have a long way to go before I reach your level :)
I need to get me some of this. Never worked with it but it look ace in what you've shown there. Thank Colin.
If you can keep it contained and together, it looks really pretty :)
Great Video. Thumbs up 👍👍
Glad you liked it :)
Just got a bunch of it. Looks great and was expecting it to float but it pretty much sank to the bottom😂
It will be interesting to see where it ends up growing best :)
Wow ! So beautiful ! I am speechless Bro !
Glad you like it my friend :)
Really good content... Keep up the good work...
Thanks for watching and I really appreciate your support :)
@@AussieAquatic I have actually figured our some things about water quality... Try out my findings... If you are interested... We can all work together in the future towards sustainable aquaculture.
Plants and animals complement each other, if not actually depend on each other. It makes total sense to combine the two for sustainable aquaculture.
Yes indeed... Glad that you understand this... Aquaponics is the future of aquaculture and fisheries... Let's grow together... Supp each other...
Just a general tip unrelated to the video topic. You need to be at least a couple inches further away from the mic or turn the gain down a bit. The lip smacking is unreal
This was back in the mobile phone recording stage, and before audio editing software. I'm still a lip smacker 😅
@@AussieAquatic lol all good! was a good video anyways, answered what I wanted to know about the plant. Going to pick some up tomorrow
@@incongruous4 homemade videos have everything. Coughing, sneezing, loud cars, dogs barking, aeroplanes.......Lol 🙂
I purchased a bunch of Riccia, which was green and looked very nice. A few days after I had it floated in my aquarium, it started to lose its green colour. Now it is entirely yellow, looks like my Riccia die already :( I really don’t know what I did wrong. My light is regular Philips 8 watts LED. Is it because the water is too hot for Riccia? The aquarium thermometer constantly reads 29-30 C. I live in Brisbane, btw. Other plants in my aquarium are submerged: amazon sword, moneywort, brazillian pennywort, pink baby tears.
Hi Dewi, plants are going to find the temperature too hot, if possible reset the heater to 26. Plants do best at 22 - 24, but can adjust to 26 OK.
New plants will often "Die back" in many new tanks due to translocation shock, and then begin growing again in the new conditions after a few weeks.
Don't remove the plants, leave them to recover and regrow.
@@AussieAquatic Thank you very much. Glad that I haven’t removed the Riccia! My aquarium was set this Spring, so I haven’t installed a heater. It looks like I need to find a way to lower the temperature of the water. I have removed the lid, and the temperature is one degree lower now.
Hi, thank you for this video. I intend to grow Riccia floating, like yours. How do you contain it and have it grow into a big bunch at one corner like that?
Hi Dewi, the floating Riccia will usually float to a corner of the Aquarium by the water current from your filter, and from there it just divides and grows thicker and thicker. Good luck :)
@@AussieAquatic Thank you :)
This is a beautiful plans I would have no idea where to get it. because I can't order it
sometimes called crystalwort
Your plants look so healthy. Do you use CO2 and fertiliser in this tank?
No Co2, but yes fertiliser, It does take some work, and sometimes it does look better than at other times. It's a little tank, but lots of enjoyment 😊
@@AussieAquatic nice to see a no CO2 tank with such bright healthy plants because I'm trying to achieve the same thing. Thanks for the video!
@@fleet_fox Accurate lighting control using a timer to find your "ideal" photo-period is vital, and then, regular small, fertiliser dosing should do the trick :)
what fertilizer do you use? thanks.
I dont have co2 as its lowtech...can i just float riccia and will it survive?
Yes, this tank is no CO2 and the riccia is thriving as a floating plant. I do add a liquid fertiliser every few days. 🌱☘🌿
How do u grow this with an fx6 filter pushing water out. I can manage to keep it on one side but it is constantly rotating cause of the filter. Will it still grow?.
it might be best to tie a lump of it to a stone or piece of wood and let it grow down on the bottom of the tank, under good light and away from the strongest current.
Hello Colin. Beautiful aquarium!!I know this video is older, but I need some help with this plant. I purchased about 10 Peanut M&M sized balls of this grown in vitro. At first, the plant tripled in size in about two weeks, pearled daily and just looked beautiful. I placed these 10 ball shaped plants in a hardwood tree with many branches and tied a hairnet around it to keep it in place. I was aiming for that natural tree look. But lately, the plant has started to turn yellow, no pearling and slower growth. No tank parameters have changed at all, which is why I’m confused. Here are my tank parameters/
Ph: 6.4 -6.8
CO2 injection via regulator/solenoid
TDS: 180-190 using remineralized RO/DI water
Gh: 3-4
Kh: 2-1
I have a Twinstar 900S light at 60% intensity for 8hrs per day. Had to turn the lights down due to algae issues with brighter lighting. CO2 comes on 3hrs before lights come on, and goes off an hour before the lights. Also, the lights PEAK at 60% for 5 hours, the rest is sunrise and sunset settings.
Because the tank is only 3 months old and I’m using Amazonia II, my fertilization with NilocG fertilizer has been very very lean. Using the EI method was causing severe algae blooms as my plant load is low and the plants haven’t fully taken off.
What am I missing here? Can u recommend anything? Thanks for your time.
Welcome to the joys of growing Aquarium plants.
JOY and FRUSTRATION.
I do see growth cycles in my own plants as well. This may mean the plants have burned through the abundant nutrients we are trying to supply, with a current lack in one of them (not all), but which one?
Rather than hunting through the list of, potassium, iron, manganese, nitrogen, phosphate, etc, I recommend patience and time.
What you're doing sounds terrific, so I suggest sticking with your routine, and waiting.
The Riccia should pick up again. Good luck.
I'm sure in a months time it'll be surging again. :)
Can Riccia go in an outside pond, min temp 10c?
Pretty much everything will grow in an Australian pond, Spring, Summer and Autumn, then die back over Winter.