TCulture Riccardia Chamedryfolia on Stainless Steel Mesh (5 x 5cm)

Description

Coral Moss (Riccardia chamedryfolia), also known as Mini Pellia, is a rare liverwort from Southeast Asia. This plant is a beautiful deep green that fares better in slightly higher lighting than many moss-like plants in the freshwater aquarium. Like many similar plants, it provides refuge for shrimp and fish fry and makes for an attractive and useful grazing area for shrimp. Coral Moss can easily be attached to driftwood and rockwork. It is slow-growing and requires low to moderate light and, with patience and care, will grow into an expansive, lush mat. With high humidity, it will even grow in a terrestrial environment!This is a very easy plant to keep without much extra care, but like all plants, it can benefit from CO2 supplementation, although this is not required. Like many mosses, it does not typically respond positively to most chemical plant supplements. Many aquarists report success with this moss purely through keeping a well-maintained aquarium with no supplementation.

Riccardia (Coral Moss) on Stainless Mesh for SG Aquascapes

This tissue-cultured Coral Moss, the liverwort Riccardia chamedryfolia, comes pre-grown on a 5 x 5cm stainless steel mesh tile, which is the easiest way to establish this slow but rewarding plant. The mesh gives you an instant flat pad you can tie or wedge onto driftwood and rock, where it knits down into the dense, deep-green carpet aquascapers love. Being lab-grown, it arrives clean and free of pest snails, algae and shrimp predators.

Coral Moss is genuinely slow-growing and prefers good light, gentle flow and clean water, so patience is key; it rewards a stable, mature tank rather than a brand-new one. In Singapore’s warm 27-29C tanks it can be sensitive, so many keepers run it in cooler, well-circulated setups and keep nutrients balanced. Once settled, it becomes a prized shrimp grazing surface and a refuge for fry.

Find more in our epiphytes range. Read our mini pellia Riccardia care guide for specifics, and our attach moss to mesh guide shows how to mount and expand these tiles.