Some more stringy moss

[Sugarlevi]

I got an explicit hint to open up a topic about the stringy moss I was offering for trade, so here it is...

Where did I find the moss?
Well, that was last year when I was desperate for infusoria for my at least 100 young leeri's, so I grabbed some moss that suddenly appeared in my parents pond. (I think it landed in there on some bricks or maybe the peat that was put on the side of the pond) currently it is smothering the whole pond (which isn't big).
While looking at the frogs having fun in the pond at my boyfriends parents home yesterday I found the moss growing there too.
I made some pictures of it growing emersed .

I can only hope I resized the pictures enough.




And one of the frogs...


What then??
Well, so I had put the moss in my breeding tanks, half a year went past.
Some months ago I started reading the posts on this forum, also about the mosses, was totally inspired went searching for wild growing aquatic mosses in Holland which was a total failure. I remembered the moss growing in our pond tied a handful to some rocks, and within a month I had the beautiful stringy look in my aquarium.

I had been thinking about placing a topic earlier, but well, you know how it goes, I just didn't make the time for it.
Besides that I was sure that I got the Leptodictyon riparium after looking at the pics of greenchapter.com and I can tell you it is not that rare at all for me as it is like I said smothering my parents pond, and I think that this year it will start to smother the pond of my boyfriends parents pond also.

So here are some pics of it out of the water, the pictures taken yesterday in my aquarium were looking awful as sometimes I just forget what my camera can do and well, I just messed up.



Next to some freshly harvested strings from the pond, you can see those from the pond are bigger more wild and 'robust'.




It grows quite fast in my shrimp breeding tanks, like I said maybe about 20 cm a month high and it make quite a dense forest.

[Sugarlevi]

Ooh, lucky me, automatic resizing on this forum, love it!

[timebomb]

Nice pics, Lisette. Your moss certainly looks stringy but it's hard to tell if it's the same as the Stringy moss we know. If you want your moss identified, send some to me and I'll bring it to the professor. By the way, did anyone respond to your offer to trade? If you like, I can send you some Taiwan Moss. Let me have your mailing address through private message or email and I'll send it right away.

Loh K L

[Sugarlevi]

Yes sir Mosscollector, I'll send some to you, to be sure about the species.

[timebomb]

Lisette,

I brought your moss to the professor today and he identified it as Drepanocladus aduncus. The professor said the moss is common in the Netherlands. He also said it requires a very low temperature to grow well so on my way home from the professor's lab, I gave your moss to a local fish shop who have chillers rigged up to their tanks. Let's hope they can grow the moss well and spread it amongst the hobbyists here.

Loh K L

[Sugarlevi]

Okay. What are low temperatures by the way?
Good to know what kind it is.

[timebomb]

Okay. What are low temperatures by the way?

Lisette,

By low temperatures, the professor meant 2 to 3 degrees centigrade lower than what is needed for Willow Moss (Fontinalis antipyretica). The Willow never grew well in my tanks until I had the DIY chiller rigged up. My temperature is about 24 to 25 degress C so it would mean 22 to 23 C for your moss.

Loh K L

[Sugarlevi]

Alright, well you know living in the northern part of the world my concept of high and low temperaturees are quite different than those living in a country like Singapore where temperature seem to barely hit anything lower than 25 degrees celsius.
22, 23 degrees is acceptable as it is the temperature at which I keep my tanks.

But I think I'll just move to some place southern, so I don't need to pack myself within three layers of clothes just to keep myself warm.