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Koi-Lo wrote: "Richard Sexton" wrote in message ... Moss is my secret weopan. Any tank with moss has a hard time growing alage. I've experiemented with all sorts of plants tryiong to keep betta jars cleanm longer and noting works like moss. I suspect if you threw a garbage bag of the stuff into a pond it owuld have a dramatic effect of water clarity. It sure works that way in aquaria. In Asis the moss that grows around ponds is the stuff we grow in fishtanks. It even grows in lawns there. ====================== Are you talking about what we call Java Moss? It grows here on rocks in the woods, damp driftwood by the lake in water itself. I believe this is all the same plant. Nah, the stuff that grows in lawns and around ponds in Singapore is "xmas moss". There's about 17 common aquatic mosses and while java moss is the oldest kept in tanks and the most common, it's not the most common one found in Singapore gardens. But any of them will work. I have on tank four feet long with a three foot clump of this stuff and if I'm lax about water changes and fertilizer then it grows alage but only where moss isn't close. The tank is utterly stuffed with plants. I'm not suggesting moss inhibits alage but that it's a very efficient consumer of nutrients, probably due to the massive surface area all those zillions of tiny leaves have. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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To Compost or Not to Compost
"Richard Sexton" wrote in message ... I'm not suggesting moss inhibits alage but that it's a very efficient consumer of nutrients, probably due to the massive surface area all those zillions of tiny leaves have. ====================== Come to think of it,...it's the tanks with a good size ball of Java moss that don't have any serious algae problems. I think I'll add a larger amount to the tanks that did have a problem. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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To Compost or Not to Compost
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Koi-Lo wrote: "Richard Sexton" wrote in message ... I'm not suggesting moss inhibits alage but that it's a very efficient consumer of nutrients, probably due to the massive surface area all those zillions of tiny leaves have. ====================== Come to think of it,...it's the tanks with a good size ball of Java moss that don't have any serious algae problems. I think I'll add a larger amount to the tanks that did have a problem. Yupper. This is not to say if you have lots of moss you'll never get alage, but based on experiemtns with betta bowls and various plants you'd have to ignore them for about 3 months to grow alage and moss. Any other plant, java fern, crypts, lucky bamboo, you get it in about 3 weeks of zero maintenance. Plus java moss (or any other moss, xmas moss, taiwan moss, creeping, weeping or what have you moss) plays host to countless protozoans to the point where you can have, for example, a self sustaining colony of half a dozen pairs of (small) killifish in a 20 gal tank, with a tight fitting cover, and it will not require any food to be added. I did this for two years and fish bred, came and went, with no food added. The poor things died when I was away on a business trip because the light timer failed - I came back to a crystal clear empty tank; when I left it was packed with moss and fish. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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