Your Favorite Moss?

Pigeonfish · 07-25-2011, 04:59 PM

I just started my planted aquarium and I'm thinking about adding some moss onto the driftwood I have.

I wanted to know what is your favorite moss and why it's your favorite moss?

Posting pictures of it will be nice too. :D

(even better if it's from one of your own tanks

)

Edit: If you don't like moss you can post the disadvantages of having it in this thread too. Any feedback is appreciated. :3

Rob72 · 07-25-2011, 07:26 PM

well dont know about favorite moss, since it is the first moss that i have ever had, i got a new tank yesterday that had 3 peices of driftwood in it and already had java moss attached to it, and its great, the guy i got it from had it for 2 months and it has attatched really good and is spreding great check out my gallery pics of 56 gallon ill post a pic to give you and idea

susankat · 07-25-2011, 09:58 PM

Tiawan moss

java moss

Fissidens

Pigeonfish · 07-26-2011, 12:08 AM

Thanks guys. That Taiwan Moss looks great.

susankat · 07-26-2011, 01:53 AM

This is xmas moss. has algae mixed in it. Need to pull the wood and clean it up but the bns keep laying eggs in there.

Pigeonfish · 07-26-2011, 07:43 AM

They must like it a lot

Since you have a lot of tanks with moss, is there any moss you're thinking about getting? Or do mainly stick with those three?

susankat · 07-26-2011, 11:01 AM

Actually that is 4 different mosses. I tend to keep to these, but would like to get some flame moss to use as a ground cover sometime. Been to hot to go out and get any fissidens this year, Hope to collect some more next spring. Fissidens grows in several creeks around here.

jrman83 · 07-26-2011, 11:43 AM

Fissidens will grow on your substrate....that's what makes it cool to me. I haven't much luck with it though. It seems it doesn't like high light, CO2, and dosed ferts or something.

IMO, java moss is the best all-around. Attaches to nearly anything and I have never had to use thread to tie any of it to something. It just goes. Can grow from just ambient light. Very good nitrate sponge if you have a lot of it like I do. I used to have a ball about the size of a basketball. Only about half that now.

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