Information – Common Name: Crystalwort, Proper Name: Riccia fluitans, Category: Floating Plants, Temperature: 10 – 28 C, PH: 5.0 – 7.5, Lighting: High, Growth Rate: Very Fast, Difficulty: Easy, Origin: Africa, Asia and in the Americas. Position in Aquascape: Floating, Foreground. Plants are incubated in a solution of 0.01% of the insecticide Buprafezin for one hour (Please do not just drop these in a shrimp tank or with any other crustacean. To use these within a tank please wash in water with baking soda under light. These are treated to remove the insecticide but there are cases where this has not been fully removed causing casualty’s in crustacean.
