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is it algae? or roting?
Care to share your setup parameter? light, tank size, CO2, fert dosing, On time, water temp, etc. Otherwise it is hard to say.
How old is the setup? Emerse moss?
You know, I got several types of MOSS in my tank.
They are Taiwan, Java, Flame and Spiky.
Initially, they grew really well. However, after awhile, they start to turn brown. Not the whole thing brown, but several strands here and there. Like, for every 5 strands, 2-3 are slightly browned.
It is really sad. I am afraid that they will die off and gone!
Please let me know what can be done to aid this situation....
Any tips from the professionals or experienced?
is it algae? or roting?
Care to share your setup parameter? light, tank size, CO2, fert dosing, On time, water temp, etc. Otherwise it is hard to say.
How old is the setup? Emerse moss?
My light is 20watts. My tank is 8.5 gallons.Originally Posted by Shadow
I never use CO2 but I will dose Flourish Excel daily. I also added Seachem Flourish once a week.
Temperature, I am not too sure. But whenever I put my hands in the tank, the water is actually quite cold. I usually on for 9 hours.
what is emerse moss?
some of the moss sell at LFS, the one that tied to the wood, if I'm not mistaken it is look like emerse moss. Meaning it was grown out of the water.
They are Taiwan, Java, Flame and Spiky...
Anyway, any idea why it will turn brown?
perhaps post some pictures?
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What is your water temperature? Water circulation, lighting, etc?
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Any bro have have idea how long does a yellowish moss take to turn back green. If the right measure is taken?
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it may not come back at all.
Yellowish can be due to not enough light or converting from emerse to submerese.
Yah I agreed. As I have faced this problem. Moral of the story is do not buy moss that are out of the water from LSF.
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I'm really confused. What are moss that are out of the water?
You mean some moss that I have are actually non-aquarium moss?
Nope what I meant was some LSF pack the moss in a plastic bag and it is out from water. (Could be for more then 2-3 days.) Compared to those pack submerge in water in a tub.
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for your info most of the farm grow their plant emerse, because it grow faster nad more cost effective. Emerse mean only the roots that under the water. Back to moss, some moss that is attached to wood is grown in the same way as well. Usually it is nicely stick to the wood without any string. It does not matter what moss, all can be grown the same way.
so if you happen to have digital camera or camera phone, maybe you want to post your moss. It may or may not help identify the problem
Ok... I am now doing a test...
I cannot remember where I read it from. But I remembered someone saying that we should give a 3 days blackout. Meaning, we off our lights for 3 full days.
Now, I have offed it for 2 days. I am already seeing results... Wonder if it will work. Anyone tried the same thing as me before?
blackout already ? from the looks of it, it should be conversion from emmerse to submersed form. My experience with taiwan moss is to trimm all the brown leaves, and new submersed form grow in its place. My mosses were nice and green in about 8-9 weeks time with regular dosing of excel (daily)+ trace (weekly).
The thing with mosses is its slow growing, you wouldnt see the effect so soon as oppose to fast growing stem plants.
goodness... If there any website that i can go to?
Because you guys know so much that I have totally no idea about.
It is very cool. But my taiwan moss are growing really fast.
good website on moss: http://www.aquamoss.net/Introduction.htm
you mean you did a blackout and the moss turned back green? so what's the result now, did it work?
i thought it was the other way round (not enough light), hehe. initially, i also had moss turning brown and i thought not enough light or nutrients. then i transferred the moss to another tank where it got more sunlight and hopefully more nutrients from the water, and now it's green
It didn't work really well... still black here and there... but my lights was really bright.
You gave it more lights and it became green... Could it be the temperature of the tank? Do moss need cool water?
i heard moss do well in cooler waters. but i don't have a fan or chiller. temperature hanging around 28C.
maybe luck.
my java moss on coconut used to have black strands here and there too like yours. but after about 2 weeks+ in my current tank, with sunlight and perhaps getting nutrients from the ADA soil i'm using, it's back green. Although not as green and pretty like what people using co2 and ferts get, but i'm quite happy with it considering it's a very low tech tank (so long as black strands are not visible like before).
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