Does Anyone Have A Spare Pinch Of Dwarf Riccia

[Katch]

I've got tonnes of Riccia Fluitans but I want to have a play with the Dwarf variety and I can't seem to find any. Does anyone have some that they could spare me a small ammount (it grows like mad in my CO2 setup so I won't need much).

I'd happily trade some Riccia Fluitans, Christmas Moss or Crypt Wendtii (i think its Wendtii)

Anyways - I'm UK based - let me know if you can help

 

[JoshuaA]

Ain't got none but had to post to say what a gorgeous ram?

 

[ian]

i have some but it's mixed in with normal Riccia. I'll send you some, if you send me a pinch of moss

You'll obviously have to separate it.

 

[Katch]

i have some but it's mixed in with normal Riccia. I'll send you some, if you send me a pinch of moss

You'll obviously have to separate it.

is it easy to tell apart?

I'll go for that trade but I've just clipped my moss and rescaped - so it'll be a couple of weeks before I have some spare.

@ Joshua - that was when he was a baby in a brand new tank , you should see him now. I'll post a new pic when my rescape has settled.

 

[JoshuaA]

@ Joshua - that was when he was a baby in a brand new tank , you should see him now. I'll post a new pic when my rescape has settled.

Please do, he's pretty cute. Kind of makes my Bolivian look a bit ugly now .

How do you find keeping that type of ram? I only opted for my Bolivian because I was a bit concerned over the quality of the GBR/Gold Rams at my LFS.

 

[Katch]

@ Joshua - that was when he was a baby in a brand new tank , you should see him now. I'll post a new pic when my rescape has settled.

Please do, he's pretty cute. Kind of makes my Bolivian look a bit ugly now .

How do you find keeping that type of ram? I only opted for my Bolivian because I was a bit concerned over the quality of the GBR/Gold Rams at my LFS.

He's from good quality imported stock as opposed to the ones that come from the large wholesalers. He was actually one of a pair that were in one of my LFS's display tanks. I talked them into selling them to me.

I find them to be very hardy and healthy fish. I do keep my stats pretty tight on my tank though and have stupid amounts of filteration (2 litres of sponge and 2 litres of ceramic in a built in sump with an additional ehiem 2224 loaded with biomedia and floss).

They are very rewarding fish to keep; but then you know this coz they're the same fish as yours just different colouring.

 

[Katch]

 

[JoshuaA]

Absolutely gorgeous, love the corys too!

That's what my ram could of been, now I'm left with a dull bolivian ram who insists on following me around that tank and look stupid Nah such a personality.

 

[Katch]

Absolutely gorgeous, love the corys too!

That's what my ram could of been, now I'm left with a dull bolivian ram who insists on following me around that tank and look stupid Nah such a personality.

See I have the same feelings as you but the other way round - whenever I see well kept bolivians I think mine look a little tacky and overbread. You'll never be happy till you have a fish house with 2000 litres of tank space... meh even then...

 

[JoshuaA]

Absolutely gorgeous, love the corys too!

That's what my ram could of been, now I'm left with a dull bolivian ram who insists on following me around that tank and look stupid Nah such a personality.

See I have the same feelings as you but the other way round - whenever I see well kept bolivians I think mine look a little tacky and overbread. You'll never be happy till you have a fish house with 2000 litres of tank space... meh even then...

At that point the fish have more room than I do haha, The fish will be on the Tropical Human Forums saying I've got 1 human per 100G is that ok? I feed him 3 times daily but I think he's a little on the fat side.

I love my ram getting a black/dark substrate was the best thing I ever did.

 

[Thedoctor]

I was originally going to go for a Dwarf Cichlid set up. But being a student and with my crap paying job I chose to go Malawi for the cheapness.

How dare you make me begin to regret that!

 

[Katch]

I have very soft water out the tap down here in Cornwall (so soft that I have to run a small bag of crushed shell in my filter to stop my CO2 crashing my pH). It made sense to go for Dwarfs - I guess up there you'll have pretty hard water so the Malawi make more sense.