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Yes, most moss can grow just floating in the water, though if they drift around and happen to catch onto an object they may attach to it over time too.
Hi all!!! I'm wondering if I just throw my moss into the tank with out tying it to anything, will it still grow???
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Yes, most moss can grow just floating in the water, though if they drift around and happen to catch onto an object they may attach to it over time too.
Hmm then will they need addition fertilizers??
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Not much, but yes mosses do still need fertilizers to growMy java moss grows pretty well in my low tech tank with no aquarium lights and only 1/8 of fertilizer dosage for normal plants^^
Ohh, so it isn't enough with just fish waste only?? And does it applies to Christmas moss too??
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Moss don't require much nutrients to grow... a tank with fishes usually already provides more than enough nutrients for the moss (more often too much!).
Though if you have a bare tank with no fishes, then some ferts can help supplement their nutrient needs.
I keep various types of mosses in plastic containers with only treated tap water, placed them near to a window to get some partial sunlight and they still grow.
Thanks guys!! And one last question. Are their light requirements low?? Because what I'm doing now is just leaving my tank light off during the day an letting sunlight to shine on them. And switch on the lights for around 4-5 hours at night
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Java moss has really low light requirements
Your current photo regime should be fine
Oh no, no wonder my existing moss isn't growing. I have not switched on my filter for a few weeks.... And now there's some white stuffs growing on it.
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Ohhhh... Water flow should be so that moss fronds are slightly swaying in the current, like coconut trees in a gentle breeze^^ same for all plants I might add
By the way I assume your tank does not have any fauna?
So the water flow is needed for the whole 24 hours?? I have 50 neon tetras and countless of Malaysian trumpet snails
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O.O and they don't need a filter?
By the way, if you switch on your filter, it would go through a nitrogen cycle lasting a month, in that time your water parameters would go haywire....nitrite spikes that could be fatal to your fauna. Especially since you don't use a filter and you're quite heavily stocked
You could consider using a power head just for water current
I'm amused myself when I first tried it
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Okays^^ neon tetras are tough^^ By the way if you turn off your filter every day at night, you need not worry about nitrogen cycle
That way you keep your water parameters stable and helps clean the fish poo^^ I'm saying this cause a mature filter that is switched off is no joke. When my father pulled the plug of my filter out at night, my whole tank crashed...all fish died by next morning.
Either you keep it on all the time or switch it off everyday
Woah! I have been taking the cycling of tank lightly. Will follow your tips and thanks for it
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No problem
I once under estimated cycling of tank and... It took away 30$ worth of shrimps
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Okay noted! What shrimp were you hosting then???
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Cherries and crystal reds
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Crystal reds not surprise but cherry too?!
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