What is this Moss? or is it not?

[fishgoogle]

Anybody can tell me what type of moss is this? or is this not a moss?

[fishgoogle]

It looks abit like those moss balls that are sold in the aquarium, but appreciate if someone could advise>?


Cheers!

Fishgoogle

[hwchoy]

looks more like algae to me. BTW those marimo balls, they are algae and not moss.

[wong1979]

You can try keeping a tank specifically meant for this algae and do some aquascaping. Just trim like hair and chuck it anywhere

[coryfav]

Yeah, this looks like some kind of hair algae to me.

Where did you find them?

[Simon]

coryfav is right, it does look more like hair algae

[|squee|]

It looks like a aquatic weed to me. It can also be an algae, but I've never seen algae that looks so 'solid' if you know what I mean.

[wong1979]

I have this algae a few years back in my "high-lighted" tank. It can grow like a weed if you ignore it and gets disastrous soon when it starts to entangle with other plants.

Now, I still have remnants of it in a "low-lighted" tank that grows on driftwood. My yamatos keep it in check by trimming it to around 2mm in height which look like patches of green turf which I think looks very natural.

[tcy81]

from the pics , it really looks like hair algae.
i guess yr tank is very much infest with it.

[livionakano]

I believe that they are a kind of hair algae, commonly named as "Staghorn" algae.

They have a more develop structure, seemengly "hard" when you get it, and also grows forming "staghorn" like structures. But as they always grows erractly, they really don´t fit to aquascaping, like those "Marimo-balls"

So, in my opinion, they are ENEMIES and must be controlled. Unfortunately, they are very very strong, and few fishes are seemingly to eat them as the first choice. I don´t have experience with shrimps, but they may help, as well as Jordanella floridae, one of my favorites algae eater fishes

[andrewtyr]

Yamatos seem to graze on them well.

[bclee]

I find Yamato shrimps to be particularly effective in clearing this algae. However, this is a pretty fast growing alage, you first have to get the nutrients right, otherwise, the crew of yamato shrimps may not be able to keep up with the algae growth.

BC

[andrewtyr]

Shrimps are particularly effective against this algae. I had tried some downoi so infested with this algae and they were whipped cleaned within a day by my cherry shrimp crew.

[baranne]

This looks like algae to me. I have some entangled with my Java moss. Yamato and cherries should munch on this. . If not, you can manually remove them once in a while if they get out of control.

[TS168]

it look like algae to me.

Saw it in some bigger drain.
especially during the dryer season when weather is hot.

it best not intro into the tank.