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

["Paul Byham" <plbyham@bigpond.com>]

that explains why my Christmas moss doesn't seem to be growing very well in 
several of my tanks, have to catch the SAE's and transfer them to another 
tank. Do Octocinclus like dining on mosses?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juan Ignacio Pucheu" <jpucheu@gmail.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Member Chat" <aga-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Member] I can't grow mosses


> Bill :
> Do you have any guide to mosses identification ?, it would be great to 
> know the
> correct name of the green stuff growing in my backyard :)
> It's seems we enjoy similar things : plants and gato's music :)
> Best regards (from barbieri's birthplace ;) )
> Juan
>
> william ruyle 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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