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Re: [AGA-Member] I can't grow mosses
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- Subject: Re: [AGA-Member] I can't grow mosses
- From: Ron Boyd <explodo2003@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Well, if that's the reason I can't grow them, I guess I just won't have mosses.
"S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote:It's the new growth that they like the most!
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--- Ron Boyd wrote:
> I do have SAEs. Unless they're only eating the new
> growth, they don't seem to bother it.
>
> Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:Do you have
> SAEs?
>
> On 9/19/05, Ron Boyd wrote:
> >
> > I'm hoping someone can tell me why I can't grow mosses.
> Here's my setup.
> >
> > 110 high tank
> > 4x96 PC lighting
> > temp 76-79 degrees (via fans and heaters)
> > pH 6.7-6.9 (via controller and CO2)
> > KH 6.0
> > Flourite substrate
> > Tropica Master Grow daily
> > Weekly 25% water changes
> > Plenty of fish
> > Good circulation
> > (unusual, but working) I use a bio-wheel to keep
> surface scum down
> >
> > I've tried several types of mosses in and out of the
> light on my plentiful
> > driftwood and I get little to no growth. The
> glossostigma and Madagascar
> > Lace grow very nicely. I really like the pictures of
> tanks with mosses, and
> > I'd really like to grow them. I realize that according
> to the CO2/KH chart
> > my CO2 is a little high, but it has worked just fine
> for the past couple of
> > years.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron Boyd
> >
> >
> >
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