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    Hello!

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    Hi all, my name is Wei Luen and I have been interested in aquarium for some time now. About a year ago and a half ago, I started keeping a planted tank. Yeah, I learn a lot since then. My original tank setup was flat, with lots of plants all over the place. Needless to say, it ended with a disaster with a lot of shorter plants dying because the longer plants outgrow and block out the lights.

    Anyway recently, I started to get really interested in moss - that's when I started to really read this forum. I've tried planting several different mosses in my tank tied to dirftwood. Some of them really grow - like taiwan moss and christmas moss. But some of them - like willow moss - KO within days due to attacks from my giant Yamatos. Anyway, I am curious, does anyone know which moss are able to co-exist with Yamato? I hate to buy a moss home, tie it to some driftwood and find it without any leaves the next day. I've got erect moss and stringy moss in my other smaller - non-Yamato - tank which I am afraid to transfer to the big tank. Sorry for the long email and thanks for listening to my rambling.

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    Wei Luen,

    Welcome to the forum.

    As far as I know, the Yamato shrimp eats mosses - all kinds. I would suggest you trade your Yamatos for some other shrimps. Cherry shrimps are nice, relatively cheap and they multiply easily in a planted tank.

    As for your Willow Moss, even if the Yamatoes had not eaten the leaves, they will die just the same if your temperature isn't low enough.

    Loh K L

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    Hi Wei Luen,

    Welcome to this humble forum!

    If you really wish to have mosses eaters to co-exist with mosses, one way out is to grow enough mosses in the tank before you introduce the eaters in. Of course, you should not add the eater in overwhelm numbers.

    You may also consider growing faster/easy growing mosses to balance the eat up rate.

    I hope I answer to your misery.

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    Re: Hello!

    heh heh... you can ramble all you want, Wei Luen, and welcome to our world of nutty killifish keepers and greeny moss thumbs

    Cherry shrimps is my preferred choice for scavengers and algae eaters albeit not as efficient as Yamatos. There is, of course, a down-side which you've already discovered and they can readily ruin a nice patch of moss. Next on my list is the 'mosquito' or 'red-nose' shrimp and quite effective with hair algae but I've heard that they will eat plants too.

    I think the problem with most, but not all, aquatic gardeners is that fishes (and other inhabitants) are 'accessories' and algae crew. They worry that fish waste products will contribute to a nutrient inbalance in the water column and will go to no end to control the parameters and minimize feeding. "Let the shrimps go hungry, so they work for you", they'd say.

    What I can only suggest for your moss-eating Yamatos is to feed them. All shrimps are opportunistic feeders and will relish an occasional slice of marrow (looks like cucumber) or other dry foods like Hikari algae tablets, carnivore pellets or cory tabs.

    Heck, if I'm kept hungry, I'll probably strip your moss and bug you like hell too!
    I'm back & keeping 'em fingers wet,
    Ronnie Lee

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    Thanks for all your replies. Hmmm ... I should seriously consider donating my Yamatos away. Just that they have been with me for such long time and feeding from my hand time to time, it's a bit sad to let them go. Probably should just transfer them to my other tank .... wait, that one has moss too Well, until I figure out what to do with them, I guess I'll just have to live with it.

    Oh, by the way, I have mosquito shrimps too ... and you're right, they do eat plants. However, they don't seem to be interested in my moss. They are however, interested in a plant that I got growing in my tank - which now has broken leaves thanks to them. Don't know the name of the plant, collected from the wild. As far as I know, that's the only plant that they munch on. Other plants don't seem to have visible signs of being attacked.

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