Mini Riccia (10x smaller!) Photos

[TheTeh]

Sounds dangerous! I should be careful when it grows up!

[Fish Newb]

One reason I decided to leave anything with "riccia" in its name out of my tank. It's hard to get rid of once you have it... kinda like duckweed...

I think DW can be worse.... I still have bits of mini ricca around my tank but it isn't AS bad as DW...

Sounds dangerous! I should be careful when it grows up!

Yeah, its about as dangerous as(BLANK) well you fill in what you think fits best.

-Andrew

[Maolo]

TheTeh I really hope it survives!
If this can cheer you up I can tell you what is happening to me
a moth ago I received my first shrimps (some RCS and white pearl) and put them in my new 25 litres tank. In the package with them I found also sole duckweed and a little piece, less than a square cm of riccia...I didn't know it was actually riccia ( ) as I had always seen it just in pics anchored to the stones, I just tought "Hey! what an awesome piece of plant! I want to keep it! let's hope it doesn't die!" Now it is about 6/7 square cm!
I really hope the mini riccia of yours to grow as mine or even faster!

[sorab]

Dwarf riccia is a bit high maintenance but it can look wonderful, it’s a great plant especially in high light tanks, a net is all you need to remove it.

[TheTeh]

Update.

Sorry to say that my mini riccia disappeared! I think it has been either eaten by snails/amano shrimps or melted away? Oh well...at least I won't have to worry about them contaminating my tank as someone had warned!

[Frank]

I got some today. Not in good condition. When it grows I can give you some for a second try. Please remind me in 2-3 months.

[TheTeh]

hi Frank,
thank you very much for the kind offer indeed! Will remind you

[Xema]

I have a kind of Riccia no-floating that is quite little too compared with normal floating Riccia fluitans, it has dark green colour.





I think when it is adapted (I am speaking about years) to the submerged condition of growth (due to it is attached to a stone or so on for example), it is turning itself non-floating, mini and dark coloured Riccia.

[Frank]

It looks like riccia rhenana (sinking riccia).

[maestro]

I had some (sinking Riccia) in one of my tanks. It is a darker green in color and stays submerged without tying it to anything....But under strong lighting and optimum conditions, the new growth emerges as a lighter green color and starts to float. It will outgrow every other plant in the tank and becomes a mess if not kept under control. Grown in a tank by itself with maybe some mosses on branchy driftwood and kept nicely trimmed, I think would make a nice display and habitat for shrimps.