Mosses for a nano..?

[nikhilsood1]

Hi Chris, back home in Bangalore i do have a lot of moss, spiky thanks to KL and the rest what we hobbyists have got and have passes onto each other. So if Anyone from Bangalore does come down to Glasgow i will try and get you some moss. Where in UK are you exactly located?

Nikhil

[FC]

Tie the mosses to the rocks. Tie them down flat. After a while, the fronds will grow out. When they have grown enough, take the rocks out and snip away all the fronds that stick out. Put the rocks back again and after a while, you will find the second batch of new growth looks a lot nicer than the first one.

This is one great tip! It never occurs to me this is how bushy mosses are acheived.

[ChrisUK]

nikhilsoo

Many thanks for the offer - very kind of you. I'm down in London.

[foxwagon]

Oh, you should tie them down, Chris. Believe me, it will look much better later. Since your tank is very small, this is what you can do:

Tie the mosses to the rocks. Tie them down flat. After a while, the fronds will grow out. When they have grown enough, take the rocks out and snip away all the fronds that stick out. Put the rocks back again and after a while, you will find the second batch of new growth looks a lot nicer than the first one. It should become more compact and this should be ideal for a small tank.

Loh K L

Would this be applicable to moss grown in between mesh? Is this how it could get that 'manicured garden' / 'bonzai' look?

[ChrisUK]

It's been quite a few weeks now since I last posted on this thread, but i have finally moved the mosses so kindly sent to me by timebomb and joteo to their new tank.

This is a tank I have set up for a friend, who liked my nano tanks and wanted to keep some shrimps. It's a small tank (although larger than the one I originally intended to use and pictured in an earlier post), about 9 inches tall by six inches square, lit by a 3 watt lamp.

The delay in setting up the tank was due to waiting for the right driftwood, which I was finally able to find. The only other plant to be used is some hairgrass.

The photos are not very good, I'm afraid. I took them with the camera on my phone, but I wanted to reassure timebomb and joteo that the mosses they so kindly sent were in their new home, and were very much appreciated. I'll take some better photographs soon, or when the fauna are introduced - probably cherry shrimp.









Of course, I kept some samples of the mosses for myself, and will have to start a new moss tank for myself.