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Re: Advice

Date sent:      	Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:14:02 -0500
To:             	killietalk at aka_org
From:           	Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>
Subject:        	Re: Advice
Send reply to:  	killietalk at aka_org

   My experience is that these plants grow very slowly.  My water 
is 8.0.  I keep this in tanks with very little lighting.  Be patient.  
   Br.. Paul

>OK, first I'm sorry if I am annoying to anyone on this list with my seemingly
>stupid questions but I'm just trying to get some of this stuff down before
>progressing to breeding.

And quite sensibly too, although there are more things to worry about than
there are things that really need to be worried about.

>      My problem is I cannot for the life of me grow these plants.  I got
>Java Moss because it sounded like it was idiot proof but I was wrong.  I
>split it and put in two different tanks. One tank has only natural light from
>the window the other tank has a fluorescent vitalite and is only 3/4 full.
> The plants are green but they don't seem to have grown since I put them in
>nor do they seem to be dying but the pH in each tank has shot up to 8.4 from
>7.  The tanks that don't have the moss are they same as usual.  All the tanks
>get the same care so it must be the plants breaking down. I gave the plants
>in one tank liquid plant food but not the other. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated as to why this is happening.

As others have said, Java moss is a very slow grower, so it almost never
looks like it's growing.  I don't find it all that helpful in keeping the
water clean for that reason.  However, the one thing I wanted to point out
is that when plants die and rot, they tend to drive the pH down, not up, so
I suspect that you have some other thing that's gotten introduced with
them.  The gravel suggestion looks likely to me.

Doug

Doug Karpa-Wilson
1821 S. Maxwell St.
Bloomington, IN 47401


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