![]() So far I have had to do no maintenance whatsoever and the mosses seem content to float around in the gentle current. The below photos are after about a month of growth. I've laid the bottom of the containers with folded paper towel to retain moisture and also give the mosses a rough surface to adhere to and put in enough fish tank water to have the paper completely soaked, plus a little extra (not enough, though, that the water raises above the level of the paper towel) and then laid the moss on top. Differently to my moss bags, the liquid in with these mosses is straight fish tank water and not BioJuice. ![]() If you have some lit tanks (low light seems to work just fine) that won't mind having their inhabitants a little shaded (bare-bottomed tanks would be perfect) then this method is targeted at you. In addition to bagging my mosses on perlite as some of you have already seen, I have also tried keeping them growing emerse inside in an attempt to keep them at a more stable temperature with very good results. Having flow through the system is probably still 1-2 months off.Īnother way to grow moss emerse. There is a 3m grow bed that should be able to take care of most plants, but we still haven't got the filtration through the IBCs happening yet, and until we do that the grow bed won't be in operation, sadly. I'm not actually planning on taking these particular Echinodorus and Cryptocoryne species out of emerse cultivation at all (as they'll be the "breeders", but whatever I can get out of them I'll be moving submerse to sell once at a decent size). I'm just going to be moving (and likely also repotting) these plants when the greenhouse is sorted. This one is already growing after about a week. Better photos will come, don't worry!Ī close view of the set-up (excuse the fog). It's not too clear now but I'll work on that later today and into the future. Be mindful your perlite cannot fall out of the pot, however, as the pot I used had large holes on the bottom of it (I used filter wool to plug them). For extra growing help I decided to switch out water (which I had used when growing plants emerse in the past) for BioJuice (a seaweed mix for hydroponic use which promotes vegetative growth, not flowering or root growth like most) to use as the liquid, and for each pot which a moss to be contained inside a bag for humidity which I then put onto my verandah in a place where it would not be too hot, but would also get a decent amount of sunlight with the moss laid out on top of the perlite. ![]() However, I wasn't too keen on using the soil mixes I had used before as they always absorbed too much water and ended up covering the medium in algae, so knowing this I decided on perlite instead and I would be mindful to keep the liquid level a lot lower than the top of the perlite to avoid algae potentially covering the mosses. ![]() I decided on growing them emerse (as I have had luck with Echinodorus and Cryptocorynes that way in the past). And eventually I came up with an ingenious idea to give them high light, easy access to CO 2, low temperatures and all the other things they needed, all while keeping them separate from one-another. A lot of the mosses also needed high light, low temperatures and CO 2. Suffice to say I had a little problem as my tanks were full to the brim with other stuff, and as a stickler for quarantine I wasn't going to have them sharing the same tank. Java Moss, Peacock Moss, Flame Moss, etc.) and all of a sudden I have rare mosses like F. splachnobryoides and F. zippelianus just sitting in clip-seal bags on my dining room table. When they arrived I wasn't exactly sure what to do with them as before this I had only ever grown the basics (eg. I've recently got into mosses after receiving small portions of about 14 varieties from a friend as a bonus from a purchase. ![]()
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