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jrc693 Shrimp Keeper

jrc693

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Hi guys,

I bought this moss a while ago as rose moss with some other plants i purchased, i introduced co2 in the tank two days ago and it suddenly went all yellow.. could it be going yellow from co2? wouldnt it flourish from the introduction of co2?

anyways i moved it to my other tank that doesnt have co2, but i was also wondering if it is rose moss? it kinda looks like the star moss that was going around recently but i doubt it is. i cant really find any clear pics online of what rose moss looks like so im not sure

sorry about terrible photo dont have a macro... tried my best

Oh another question, i have us fissidens which i recently trimmed and moved it to this tank as well under the same kinda cermic plate with the cover and half of it underneither has gone brown! what have i done wrong?

thanks!

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Does look like rose moss. BUT difficult to tell with the pic shown. Can you post up a tank pic. I've found that certain type of mosses do better in semi-shady areas of the tank. Do you dose with excel ? use hydro peroxide etc ?

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here is a tank pic,

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ah well thats good i know its defs rose moss then :)

ummm yeh i did spot dose it with excel once or twice probably a week ago because there was a bit of hair algae on it. could that of harmed it?

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Perhaps spot dosing with excel may have caused this... mosses react differently to excel, peroxide etc... Hopefully it'll recover to its full glory.

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Hey Justin, I think it is Star moss actually. It looks similar to the Star moss that I have, although it is hard to tell in your pic as it's squashed under the mesh.

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ah yeh i cant take any better pics i tried but next time you take macro shots doron can you take one of your star moss and i can see if its similar?

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It's star moss.

Normally, spot dosing moss with excel or peroxide is not a good idea as they will most likely turn brown and possibly die off. I find that frequent baths in a diluted excel or peroxide solution works better; Not recommended for star moss though as its leaves are too fragile.

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Thanks for your reply!

Nice! that means i bought rose moss ended up with star moss haha, but that plate has about 75% of it gone yellowish, really hoping that it'll recover!

Thanks!

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Yeap I'm pretty sure it's star moss. Mine didn't do too well in my sshrimp tank so I put them in my plant tank with co2 and now the mosses have recoverd.

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