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RE: JAVA MOSS
Wright, I bought some Java Moss at an auction a while back and it didn't do
very well either. As a matter of fact it just plain died. Then a few
months later I started seeing little sprigs coming up out of the gravel and
now I have a pretty good growth of it, about the size of an orange.
GM
-----Original Message-----
From: Wright Huntley [mailto:huntley1 at home_com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:33 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: JAVA MOSS
Barry Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> It occurs to me that as a Fisher rep you might be able to
help me get hold
> of a couple of long neck flasks such as conical flask, say
500 ml capacity.
> I would like to try the flask method of harvesting vinegar
eels, where you
> plug the neck of the flask with filter floss, then top up
with water, into
> which the eels will migrate.
Long-neck salad-dressing bottles work almost as well and are
about $15
cheaper.
>
> Also, if you have any Java moss to spare, I'd like to try
it again. The
> batch I got from you before did not do well. I'm not sure
why, whether
> light or the fact that my water has salt in it.
I doubt if it is the salt. I keep Java moss in brackish
tanks at a SG up to
1.015, and it lives. It just does not thrive. It is
supposedly an estuarine
plant with a lot of solt tolerances in some parts of its
native range.
[Likewise, but a bit less so with Java fern.]
It does like some hardness in the water, so you might add a
bit of Epsom
salt for that, if your local water is dead soft. Ca would
probably be even
better. Growth rate, but not health, seems light dependent,
tho. Lots of
light and food and it grows fast. Dim shoebox and it stays
static but richly
green.
Wright
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huntley1 at home_com
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