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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

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    Subzero,

    I'm quite sure the plant in the top right hand corner is not a moss but a liverwort.

    Loh K L

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    Hi KL,

    The pic on the top-right is a close-up picture of the top left plants (approx 2 cm near). I pick them up from the place above water just next to the submersed form shown in the pictures below, unless they are mixed up with other moss. I will double check again to see if i am wrong. Anyway i have put some of the emersed form into the water and i'll monitor its changes also.

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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

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    Subzero,

    I'm quite sure the plant in the top right hand corner is not a moss but a liverwort.

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    KL,
    I have the same moss with the square shape fronds and it is gorwing submersed in my office tank. I have also seen subzero's 'moss'. It looks like a moss to me. I will pass some to Prof Tan for him to ID this weekend

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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by timebomb
    Subzero,

    I'm quite sure the plant in the top right hand corner is not a moss but a liverwort.

    Loh K L
    KL,
    I think you are right, it is a liverwort and not a moss.

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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

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    Quote Originally Posted by timebomb
    Subzero,

    I'm quite sure the plant in the top right hand corner is not a moss but a liverwort.

    Loh K L
    KL,
    I have the same moss with the square shape fronds and it is gorwing submersed in my office tank. I have also seen subzero's 'moss'. It looks like a moss to me. I will pass some to Prof Tan for him to ID this weekend
    KL,
    I just checked a few reference books and I think you are right, it is a liverwort and not a moss.[/quote]

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    In that case, I shall find the right picture and replace it soon.

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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by Gan CW
    I think you are right, it is a liverwort and not a moss.
    I'm right again?? Well, thanks. It's nice to be right every once in a while

    Ben, the Liverwort in your picture looks like the one I brought to the Prof several weeks ago. Here's what mine looks like:



    Your specimen looks a lot healthier and greener though. I would appreciate it if you grow them in your tanks and pass me some later. I think the Prof may want to do a scientific paper on Liverworts after he has finished the one on Mosses.

    Loh K L

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    Re: Singapore Moss Pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by timebomb
    Your specimen looks a lot healthier and greener though. I would appreciate it if you grow them in your tanks and pass me some later. I think the Prof may want to do a scientific paper on Liverworts after he has finished the one on Mosses.
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    KL,
    I have tied some of this liverwort on a driftwood, hopefully they will do well in my tank. I still have some left so I will pass them to Prof Tan.

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    Re: A common name for a common Moss

    Quote Originally Posted by timebomb
    Hi, folks,

    Professor Benito Tan and his assistant, Claudia are going to publish a scientific paper on the various aquatic mosses available to aquarists in Singapore. Choy Heng Wah, Gan Cheong Weei and I are helping them. The goal is to establish the scientific names and to clarify the confusion about the common names.
    I just received a note from Prof Tan that the above mentioned article will be published sometime in November in issue 102 of the Science Center Magazine. Finally we will know the scientific name of the more common aquatic mosses !
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