Re: [AGA-Member] I can't grow mosses

[william ruyle <inquartata@comcast.net>]

Hate to be a pointy-nose, but, a number of us including myself, have to 
rename
java moss: Taxiphyllum barbieri (no relation to Gato Barbieri, jazz 
saxophonist:-)
Singapore moss, much more decorative, is Vesicularia dubyana. TAG issue
18-3 has been most informative! OK, exit stage left....

Bill

S. Hieber wrote:

> Others and I have had the experience. In my tanks, the SAEs
> continually roamed as they grazed but they spent a lot of
> time on the mosses. They didn't at first appear to be
> eating any of it. It was a bit later that I realized they
> were only going for the newest growth.
>
> They became so fond of the stuff, they would actually trap
> themselves behind the plastic grid I had set up for the
> moss wall. A moss-&-SAE wall is not a pretty sight.
>
> Scott H.
>
> --- Juan Ignacio Pucheu <jpucheu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
> > SAE's eat mosses like vesicularia dubyana and others ?
> > sad news for me, thank's for the infomartion....
> >
> >
> >
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