#java moss

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I just want to show off that the Java moss idea for anyone debating and say highly recommend

Mosses might be ancient and ecologically important plants, but they don't capture the imagination of gardeners, not even water gardeners - one popular book tells us, that willow moss is probably the only moss in cultivation. Anyone saying so has overlooked the cultivation of our aquatic gardens, our Indoor planted aquariums. For we have a few species of mosses in circulation, and often we aren't certain which of our mosses is which. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to identify a moss to its species, or even it's genus. This is although aquarists have cultivated what they have called 'Java moss' for decades, it turned out that at least two species are involved.

One of them, which was probably the first in cultivation, is Vesicularia dubyana - thusly the 'true' Java moss, in the minds of many. V. dubyana is a common enough species, that is naturally distributed from South Asia to Indonesia. But in the aquarium of Japan, Europe, and North America, V. dubyana has been exceeded in popularity by a newcomer, Taxiphyllum barbieri. (It seems certain that 'Java moss' has also been applied to even more moss species.) Both these species are from Southeast Asia and are suitable for tropical aquarium plantings. Nowadays, V. dubyana is, ironically, traded as Singapore moss to avoid confusion with T. barbieri.

In the wild the original Java moss, V. dubyana, grows on rocks, trees, and soils. This preference of substrate makes V. dubyana very suitable for cultivation attached to rocks or wood in aquascape. In the aquarium it is tolerant of low lighting conditions, and also of a wide range of temperatures, flourishing in an unheated temperate aquarium, but also at temperatures up to 30 degrees centigrade. Vesicularia sp. can and do grow emersed when the air is warm and very humid, as long as their rhizoids are damp. (Mosses lack true roots)

This makes them suitable plants for a paludarium setup also, and they seem to be more terrestrial than are some other kinds of Vesicularia in the wild, and seems to be often recorded by botanists when it is growing on shaded, wet stones and damp soils in raingorests. Besides V. dubyana there are other species of Vesicularia present in the aquarium trade. The Christmas tree moss (V montagne) resembles V. dubyana but it is larger. Fellow mosses within the genus include the erect moss (V. reticulata) and the creeping moss (V. ferriei), which are both named for their growth habits.

he made it but he's now off camera just staring at the grass like he can believe it. poor fergus. I'd pay out of pocket for your little fishy cataract surgery but alas I can't.

Its gonna be a low tech 10g for a Betta. Based on what I read, I decided to buy crypt wendtii green, java moss, and water sprite. Reviews for the finnex stingray led said it was good for low light plants, and because my tank already gets a lot of natural sunlight, I went with the clip on version. And I already have my filter + heater.

Now the problem I'm running into substrate and fertilizer 🥲 The moss seems pretty straight forward, just tie it down and make sure it gets some nutrients. But the crypt and water sprite are giving me some trouble.. I'm finding lots of conflicting information regarding substrate size (gravel vs sand vs dirt) and what form of fertilizer is best for them (liquid vs root tabs vs stuff like fluval stratum).