java moss epidemic

[mark]

Howdy-

I have a different sort of problem...I recently moved my planted 26g to
a 40g. The tank is doing good, almost too good. I wanted only 2
species of plants; a red sword as center piece and java fern sprouts on
the wood and rocks. My problem is when I transferred the plants I also
transferred in bits of java moss. This stuff grows like crazy over wood
and rock, any attempts to pull it off results in breaking it into tiny
pieces which float around and eventually settle down to grow again. It
seems like an impossible task. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mark

[Doug]

In article <37700153...@news.ne.mediaone.net>, dran...@mediaone.net
wrote:

> mark <ma...@netscape.com> wrote:
>
> >...My problem is when I transferred the plants I also

> >transferred in bits of java moss. This stuff grows like crazy over wood
> >and rock, any attempts to pull it off results in breaking it into tiny
> >pieces which float around and eventually settle down to grow again. It
> >seems like an impossible task. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>

> I just kept picking and picking until after a few months, the stuff
> was gone. After you pick, do some siphoning. Turn off the filters
> and bubblers (if any) so they won't float around. After they settle,
> vacuum. That's about all I can offer!
>
> Isn't that stuff like a freaking weed? I went to a bunch of trouble
> to find it, then I banished the whole, huge wad to a big Visions pot
> that sits in my picture window. Someday I'll have a use for it, I
> guess.
>
> See ya,
>
> Kristen
> --
Funny. I can never get it to grow. Aponogetons, crypts, all manner of
swords: fine. But try water sprite, java moss, elodea or any other "easy
to grow" plant in my hands and it just croaks.

Doug

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[Ricky]

> Funny. I can never get it to grow. Aponogetons, crypts, all manner
of
> swords: fine. But try water sprite, java moss, elodea or any
other "easy
> to grow" plant in my hands and it just croaks.

Maybe you just keep your tank too warm for thoses plants? I know my
water sprite just started disapear when I got the water temp up

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Richard Roulx

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[John Flynn]

Actually, I have Java moss in a big planted Discus tank. It's about 85
degrees. The java moss isn't spreading out, but it has attached itself
to driftwood and is holding its own. Incidentally, I have about 500
watts of light over the tank (135 gal) so that's another testament to
the adaptability of what I consider the very cool bit of greenery that
is java moss. Recently, I moved a patch of it over to another piece of
driftwood, and it is choking out the hair algae that was growing there
very nicely.

My two cents.