Re: Suggestion for carpet plants
Screen door mesh, cut 2 pieces to fit the bottom of your tank, buy a 2 cup portion of riccia and spread it evenly over one of the meshes. Put the other mesh over it evenly so it is the shape of the bottom of your tank. Get fishline or some other aquarium-safe string and "sow" the mesh together from the sides and then down the middle to form a plus sign. Put it at the bottom of your tank and use some rocks as weights to hold it down. Have bright lighting, and if possible, use a CO2 injector (even DIY ones can be efficient/cheap for this process). Do not have any fish in the aquarium during the time period in which you're growing the riccia as an ammonia spike could easily lead to algae growth. Riccia, grown in this manner, can form a very beautiful, and very cheap green carpet. If you don't have bright lighting and/or CO2 injector, you can even just get a big shallow tub, fill it with dechlorinated water and place the riccia mesh in it and put it under a window that gets sun, or outside if you're daring. Just make sure you monitor the temperature frequently, and don't let it get too hot.
Currently keeping guppies, bettas, weather loaches, and Aphyosemion australe (my first killifish).
Currently trying to breed the A. australe.
~Larry~
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