Will cherry and yamato eat riccia?

[rtcc86]

i just rescaped my tank and i placed riccia on mesh in my tank....however i see my cherry shrimps and yamatoes camping at the riccia...are they trying to eat it or wat?

[planted86]

read from a magazine that when yamato don't have anymore algae to eat they will start eating plants... but their favourite plant is tonina... it will chew away every single leaf on the plant... but not sure of cherry.. maybe its eating the algae on the riccia...

cheers...

[kemp]

newly bought riccia? Could it have chances of having traces of algaes on it which is attracting the shrimps?

[cardinal]

read from a magazine that when yamato don't have anymore algae to eat they will start eating plants... but their favourite plant is tonina... it will chew away every single leaf on the plant... but not sure of cherry.. maybe its eating the algae on the riccia...

cheers...

Ahh.. No wonder my tonina tip went loose today... I thought was the doing of snails... How true is it?

[valice]

newly bought riccia? Could it have chances of having traces of algaes on it which is attracting the shrimps?

Why not?
You bought it from an LFS which has submerged the riccia in a tank of water right? So unless their tanks are completely sterile and devoid of anything, there will be algae on the riccia...

I could also be microscopic organisms on the riccia which the shrimps are feeding on which we can't see...

[planted86]

Ahh.. No wonder my tonina tip went loose today... I thought was the doing of snails... How true is it?

i read from a magazine....

[dc88]

Yamato will also eat new shoots of E. tenellus too. Read in this month TFH magazine an article from Amano. He suggests to remove or reduce Yamato if algae is under control and if they start eating new growth plant.
I believe they will not spare christmas moss too.
I wonder on average every sq ft of tank floor area can have how many Yamato before they overrun the plant ?

[kemp]

so it could be due to this, that explains why the shrimps are crowding to it ba?
just a guess

Why not?
You bought it from an LFS which has submerged the riccia in a tank of water right? So unless their tanks are completely sterile and devoid of anything, there will be algae on the riccia...

I could also be microscopic organisms on the riccia which the shrimps are feeding on which we can't see...

[|squee|]

Don't worry, your Riccia shouldn't be affected.

You'll notice that newly added plants are always hotspots for Otos and shrimp. Should be all the small little stuff that live in water that are in abundance on the newly added plant.

[valice]

I find that mosses seemed to be cleared off their brown leaves when there are shrimps in the tank... Seems like they are eating the dying leaves... So causing the mosses to grow better?

[mozesyap]

Last time I had Riccia, it grew like a weed covering an entire area of the tank.
Don't think my yamatos and cherrys did anything to it. (Though I wish they would help me keep it in check )

[rtcc86]

hmm..my riccia aint growing much at all

[planted86]

Yamato will also eat new shoots of E. tenellus too. Read in this month TFH magazine an article from Amano. He suggests to remove or reduce Yamato if algae is under control and if they start eating new growth plant.
I believe they will not spare christmas moss too.
I wonder on average every sq ft of tank floor area can have how many Yamato before they overrun the plant ?

haha... same magazine!!!