Algae Ball!

[Thirteen]

Hi, i'm juz wondering if the algae ball is a natural thing found in the wild. Or is it juz algae balled up and sell by people. Does anyone uses it in their scapes b4?

[Justikanz]

Yes, it is a natural thing found in the wild. Google marimo ball.

Kinda difficult to scape using it... but it can be done... Try using smaller balls and many of them... I think they look cute...

[ranmasatome]

hahaha... tear it all apart and put on wood...then tie... nice!
who said its hard to scape..hhahaha..

[Justikanz]

Kinda defeats the purpose of getting the balls, right?

But can it really be done? They are one of the more beautiful algae, in fact the ONLY algae on sale... (Right?)

[ranmasatome]

yup...i got driftwoods with it.. i actually bought them to tear them up..lol.. still got one big ball left.. put in zen tank..

[cs_sg]

yup...i got driftwoods with it.. i actually bought them to tear them up..lol.. still got one big ball left.. put in zen tank..

Very interesting!
Can you post a pic of your algae ball covered wood?

[Digimon]

You can also simply placed it some where in your foreground. Looks cute. This is the only algae I like cos it doesn't spread to other areas. It just grow on itself but quite slow grower.

But you will need to rotate it once a while, otherwise the bottom part will lose its color a bit. In the river where they are found, the current is very strong, thus they are rolled around the river bed. That's how they form the ball shape there.

Had used on both high maintenance and low maintenance tank before. Easy plant or shall I say algae. Shrimp-proof and SAE-proof too.

[valice]

Shrimp-proof and SAE-proof too.

But definitely not gold fish proof!!
I used to have one which was torned apart by this old gold fish which i happened to have from my dad's tank...

[Thirteen]

hehe..would be great if able to post a few of ur scapes which has Marimo think they look cute sia. there's even soft toy made after it! some website says we need to "clean" the marimo ball, by taking it out and squeeze the ball to remove the dirty water inside because it is abit like sponge. I think i'm going to try have marimo for my next experiment with Iwagumi.

[ranmasatome]

Very interesting!
Can you post a pic of your algae ball covered wood?

cant leh...no DC with me now.. anyway..i cant post those pics just yet.. doing some experiments with this moss as a base layer on the driftwoods..so b4 experiment is over i cant post pics..