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Questions about Java Moss
I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns
and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I agree that it looks fabulous on a hunk of bogwood, but, in the right conditions, it grows like wildfire. Be prepared to trim it frequently. As far as a way to acquire it, try online retailers, or better, make a new post in this group, or *.marketplace and beg for some! g If you're willing to wait a couple weeks *I* could send you some, I recently removed it from all but the 75 and keep it trimmed pretty hard. g billy |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I'm in Winnipeg and I have never seen it in a LFS here. Matter of fact I am going to a local store today to buy some plants and have a friend that works there. I will ask him about importing Java Moss. I was also told that it cannot be imported into Canada. I have 30+ tanks and almost all with the exception of some of my cichlid tanks have Java Moss in it. It looks great on your driftwood , is invaluable in tanks containing Corydoras as a spawning material and removes copious amounts of nitrate from the water. Rick |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I'm in Winnipeg and I have never seen it in a LFS here. Matter of fact I am going to a local store today to buy some plants and have a friend that works there. I will ask him about importing Java Moss. I was also told that it cannot be imported into Canada. I have 30+ tanks and almost all with the exception of some of my cichlid tanks have Java Moss in it. It looks great on your driftwood , is invaluable in tanks containing Corydoras as a spawning material and removes copious amounts of nitrate from the water. Rick |
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Questions about Java Moss
I live in Montreal and I bought my Java Moss right here (at a store called
Aquarius http://www.aquariusweb.qc.ca/), so yes, it can be imported in Canada. This stuff grows so fast it's about to take over the appartement over here. I started with a golf ball worth of the stuff, and now it's covering a small peice of wood so well that I don't see it anymore, plus I have enough for another tank (the stuff now covers about 20% of all available area in my 20 gallons). It is really great plant with almost no needs. Tz "Rick" wrote in message news:_IHOb.167573$ts4.33484@pd7tw3no... "Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I'm in Winnipeg and I have never seen it in a LFS here. Matter of fact I am going to a local store today to buy some plants and have a friend that works there. I will ask him about importing Java Moss. I was also told that it cannot be imported into Canada. I have 30+ tanks and almost all with the exception of some of my cichlid tanks have Java Moss in it. It looks great on your driftwood , is invaluable in tanks containing Corydoras as a spawning material and removes copious amounts of nitrate from the water. Rick |
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Questions about Java Moss
I live in Montreal and I bought my Java Moss right here (at a store called
Aquarius http://www.aquariusweb.qc.ca/), so yes, it can be imported in Canada. This stuff grows so fast it's about to take over the appartement over here. I started with a golf ball worth of the stuff, and now it's covering a small peice of wood so well that I don't see it anymore, plus I have enough for another tank (the stuff now covers about 20% of all available area in my 20 gallons). It is really great plant with almost no needs. Tz "Rick" wrote in message news:_IHOb.167573$ts4.33484@pd7tw3no... "Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I'm in Winnipeg and I have never seen it in a LFS here. Matter of fact I am going to a local store today to buy some plants and have a friend that works there. I will ask him about importing Java Moss. I was also told that it cannot be imported into Canada. I have 30+ tanks and almost all with the exception of some of my cichlid tanks have Java Moss in it. It looks great on your driftwood , is invaluable in tanks containing Corydoras as a spawning material and removes copious amounts of nitrate from the water. Rick |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message
. .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I originally got some from a PJ Pet Center at Yonge & Eglinton, but that was years ago. Have you tried calling all the PJs in the area and asking if they have any? Harry -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message
. .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I originally got some from a PJ Pet Center at Yonge & Eglinton, but that was years ago. Have you tried calling all the PJs in the area and asking if they have any? Harry -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Questions about Java Moss
Thanks all,
After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. Following a comment at http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/pdubyana.html, I tied a piece of the clump to some bark. The swordtails are obsessed with it! Most of the rest is spread thinly across the substrate in one corner, and I kept a bit in a separate growing tank (just in case the fish eat what I just installed in their tank). The stuff really does go a long way. "Harry Muscle" wrote in message ... "Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message . .. I have a 90 gallon that I got 2nd-hand complete with 3 gigantic java ferns and some amazon sword. I've been reading that java moss looks pretty on logs, and I was thinking of adding some. But many LFS (Toronto/Mississauga - Canada) don't stock it, and one even suggested that it's a pest and pernicious weed. Should I be rethinking my desire to introduce java moss? Gerry I originally got some from a PJ Pet Center at Yonge & Eglinton, but that was years ago. Have you tried calling all the PJs in the area and asking if they have any? Harry -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message
... Thanks all, After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. [snip] I really want some Java Moss. The only LFS that normally carries it says they won't get any until June. Maybe it's time to consider ordering some online? Gail |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message
... Thanks all, After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. [snip] I really want some Java Moss. The only LFS that normally carries it says they won't get any until June. Maybe it's time to consider ordering some online? Gail |
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Questions about Java Moss
"Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message
... Thanks all, After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. [snip] I really want some Java Moss. The only LFS that normally carries it says they won't get any until June. Maybe it's time to consider ordering some online? Gail |
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Questions about Java Moss
Take a look at Billy's 1st reply in this thread. He might be willing to
part with some. Or if you're in the Toronto area, give Big Al's (Mississauga) a try. they did say they *usually* have some. $2.99/clump. "Gail Futoran" wrote in message ... "Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message ... Thanks all, After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. [snip] I really want some Java Moss. The only LFS that normally carries it says they won't get any until June. Maybe it's time to consider ordering some online? Gail |
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Questions about Java Moss
MY LFS buys all I can supply. It grows like mad in an overloaded low light
guppy/platty tank. Makes for nice credit and with a 300% markup they make a nice profit too ;-) Now if they'd just pay for the damn guppies and platys. They complain about the commercial stuff that gets shipped in ..its too pale, mine is nice and green. I use a big ball in the guppy tank as a place for fry to hang out. In my other tanks I limit it to a basalt donut in one and a new start on a chunk of drift wood. Interestingly, the latter colonized from a mass floating in the tank. Anyone know anything about how it reproduces, outside of growing huge and spitting? Bob "Gail Futoran" wrote in message ... "Gerry" gerry @ howlett.ca wrote in message ... Thanks all, After the 1st post suggesting that it's a welcome plant, I badgered the local Big Al's here in Mississauga, and they confessed to having some in one of their tanks which they sold me for a nominal amount. It's something that they say they always have in stock, but simply haven't had for the past month. Apparently one of their employees grows it at home and hasn't brought any in recently. [snip] I really want some Java Moss. The only LFS that normally carries it says they won't get any until June. Maybe it's time to consider ordering some online? Gail |
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Questions about Java Moss
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:23:09 -0800, "Robert Flory"
wrote: MY LFS buys all I can supply. It grows like mad in an overloaded low light guppy/platty tank. Makes for nice credit and with a 300% markup they make a nice profit too ;-) Now if they'd just pay for the damn guppies and platys. snip Bob Sure wish I could get some around here. None of the stores carry it for some reason. If you're intersted in selling me some, send me a pm with your price. Brian ridercycle at hotmail dot com |
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