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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: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
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You mention some excellent articles, a long time coming for
those that appreciate aquatic mosses.
But the SAEs don't care whatcha call it; if it's thin fine
greenery, they eat it. They don't hold to just one species
or genus of moss.
Tip: I wear a beanie with a propellor and that distracts
folks from noticing my pointy nose.
have facts, have fun,
sh
--- william ruyle <inquartata@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >>SAE's eat mosses like vesicularia dubyana and others ?
> >>sad news for me, thank's for the infomartion....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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