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Re: java moss
Java moss grows fine here in Vancouver, where the water is very soft.
I don't think that lack of salt in your tanks is the problem. I
definitely don't add salt to my tanks and, while I am not taking
buckets of java moss out of the one small tank I have it growing in,
it is growing fine.
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:31:31 -0600
> From: kmgilpin at juno_com (Kevin M Gilpin)
> Subject: java moss
>
> Hello,
>
> My java moss is turning brown and dying back. I read somewhere that
> java moss needs some salt in the water to flourish. Other plants in the
> tank are doing fine so i'm wondering if lack of salt is the problem.
> How much salt per 10 gallons should be added and in what form? I have a
> whole bag of Instant Ocean salt that I used on a reef tank. Would that
> be fine? What are the sensitivities of other plants to the salt (ie.
> echinodorus, hygrophilia, java fern, etc.).
> Tank is a 20 gallon high. pH=@7.0. DIYC02. Hardness of tapwater
> (GH=9).
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>