i have a moss ball for 1 week, they just stay in round shape...does not seem to spread though..just cute n round...
Hi, I'm looking at geting some low requirment plants for my 4ft planted tank to fill up some shaded areas. I'm running a chiller at 26.5 degrees. I'm very attracted by the moss balls. But i understand they're actuall algae (Marimo Algae Balls). Do they spread to attached to other plants like other pest algae? Any other recommendations for plants with low light requirments? Appreciate some advise/ recommendations. Tks
i have a moss ball for 1 week, they just stay in round shape...does not seem to spread though..just cute n round...
Moss balls, in nature, come in 3 forms. One of them is what we see all the time in LFSs, which is the round ball form. Another, is the carpet form, which can be found on the shaded side of rocks. The last is the floating form composing of a few filaments which, when settled down, can also form a carpet. More info can be found here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimo
ask me , i am a marimo !
lol
marimo basically are algae and no difference from the float or settled down, we are round shape because we are formed by constant turbulence and wave action and form a round shape.
However the ones you buy from LFS do not belong to the natural habitat such as hokkaido,
It is done by humans to make us like a ball
Marimo like cool water and clean water. We are more green in cold water. we need to be squeeze as we are dirt magnet, toss us and spin us around otherwise our south pole wont get enough light
Yawn
last thing we grown very very slow like less than 1 cm a year
we shrink in size if the condition is bad get burnt with direct sunlight
its weird to hear a marimo answering in a forum.. LOL
Btw, i really wonder how something that grow so slow can be sold in large quantity in LFS while decently priced. Marimo, maybe u can answer that too? any way to hasten the process of growing YOU?
Check out my Blog on planted tank, good for newbies ( i am lazy to retype all the info i know, so please click and read below link... i hope you don't fall asleep while reading)
Link to my Blog
I am not PERFECT but I am LIMITED EDITION !!! BIG Tank comes with BIG Responsibility...as they makan a lot of $$....lol
Yesi Yesi
I have been tested like a hamster with different stuff
my comrades also tio, we are kept in different air seal glass jar from ikea and we only speak to each other when we have weekly bath
We have been tested with clean water, cold water, no hot water
tested with Co2
tested with fertilizer
tested with aqua salt
tested with mitsubishi refridgerator
tested with lava rock
tested with distill water
tested with spinning like washing machine
The result is ... there no way to find out if we can be grow faster, because it takes years to measure the growth rate !
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