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Both Ricca and Java can be grown and increased in straight water with some sunlight or strong lighting. The Java will grow on very damp substrates or on waterfalls and other water features. Just drape it over wherever you want it, as long as the substrate or bark, whatever you are using is constantly damp. In my experience, Ricca is a bit more aquatic, but I agree, that both like rather strong light to prosper. Both will grow in aquariums as well as on wet land portions. Neither will tolerate any drying out. Java is useful for so many things, it's worth keeping around in an aquarium set up, just so it's available for new projects. I put pieces of it in my tadpole raising containers, where it provides both shelter and helps keep the water fresh, as well as harboring the algae they eat. It grows on the substrate of a lot of my vivariums, and even though it is not like a sheet moss golf course and often needs trimming back, it is a safe harbor for the frogs, and relatively immune to the larger ones trampling it down. From a very small bit of Ricca on a tiny lava rock, my newest paludarium, which is 180 gallons with half fish aquarium and and half terrestrial dart frogs, is colonizing the tree fern drip wall, floating around the tank in pieces, where I harvest it and put it in the damper land areas. I'm not sure yet how far away from an aquatic situation Ricca will flourish, but I do know the Java does.
The Java moss also makes a nice filter agent if you are circulating water across rocks or drip walls for various water features. If it gets too prosperous, or grows where you don't want it, it's easy to remove without disturbing anything else.
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