Picture Moss

[Dennis Singh]

How I love my mosses and photographing them. Here is a thread with different pictures and species.


Taxiphyllum alternans


common name taiwan moss


level: easy


This moss can branch out or grow stringy like java moss depending on conditions, its in the taxiphyllum family one of the easiests genus' to grow. Anchors very well


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[Dennis Singh]

Taxiphyllum barbieri


common name java moss


level: easy


This is one of the only mosses that I would suggest trimming and keep well trimmed to achieve a desired look. Otherwise it just grows all over the place, still can grow uniformly though

 

[germybugs]

Nice pics! Second the suggestion on trimming the java moss. It's pretty messy and tangled if left to its own devices.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Nice pics! Second the suggestion on trimming the java moss. It's pretty messy and tangled if left to its own devices.

Yup pretty much any other you can pull and retie, i wouldn't recommend trimming at all...

 

[Tug]

Are there distinguishing traits for these two mosses?


From the pictures, I can recognize they are different but wouldn't be able to explain how.


And thank you for being a moss lover. The observations about trimming was also very helpful.

 


Is the water temperature important when keeping these mosses?


Edit !!

 

[Dennis Singh]

Are there distinguishing traits for these two mosses?
From the pictures, I can recognize they are different but wouldn't be able to explain how.


And thank you for being a moss lover. The observations about trimming was also very helpful.

 


Is the water temperature important when keeping these mosses?


Edit !!

Great question. If I saw java moss and taiwan moss(grown poorly), I couldn't tell the difference between the two. Java moss has a more irregular branching pattern. Taiwan if grown properly has a more uniform pattern. Tips balling, is a good sign of good growth start as you can see in the next post picture of mini taiwan moss. Hope this helps, thanks!


As for temperature, been able to grow moss in about 80 degrees F, thats all I can say on this. Tom Barr states as water temperature rises the need for co2 rises with mosses, well with any plant in general...I hope that was accurate Tom.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Common name mini taiwan moss or mini java moss


level: easy


I'm not going to put a scientific name on this one yet as I do not know it and do not know if its accurate on this other site. For all I know Dr. Moss and the owner of the site...nevermind

 

[Dennis Singh]

If anyone knows where I can get a compound microscope for cheap or trade me one, it may do wonders for id'ing mosses, i don't know can't predict the future, but it may help. I heard you can get them at hospitals when they upgrade their equipment. I've got plenty to trade.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Common name Pilo moss


scientific name, unknown to me as of now


level: Imma put this at the easy level, it grows well for me and I've given and sold some and does well for many people


This moss is a huge score, drapes on driftwood, any irregular fronds that don't drape/wrap around the driftwood can be loosely removed. This is by far my favorite moss to present.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Look forward to more and more species as I grow out, just received these in the mail, super duper stoked.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Mosses are either terrestrial , semi-aquatic (weeping, xmas, so on), or fully aquatic (fissidens) which makes sense why this moss does well in high co2 tanks. So from post above I put into my high tech tank, wave moss(looks like a liverwort or something that likes the co2), mini fissidens, fissidens sulawesi, and fissidens thailand


so here pictures of newly tied except for the fissidens fontanus, i'll update the growth as they grow or die

 

[Dennis Singh]

Common name Mini weeping aka java spring moss


This moss would benefit from a little co2 it looks like. Also looks like if grown in ro water, you'll get different results.


But those are just two theories which i haven't tried out.

 

[Dennis Singh]

Beam of light shines down hope on this weeping moss

 

[Dennis Singh]

Its very important to start off with good moss. Buy it from a seller that doesn't have any algae on it and the better the looking moss, the better success you will have. Here are pictures of cameroon moss, the bad stuff just went through a lot of different things, and the nice looking stuff went into straight out good conditions. It makes a huge difference. I'm seeing a lot of sellers out there where they have good moss growth but its infested with string algae, this stuff is hard to impossible to get rid of once entangled into the moss. Buy from me, not from them. Also start with good portions, the smaller the portion, the less "sexing?" going on, so with more, you'll generally have more success.


Cameroon mosses...They're the exact same moss, i guarantee it

 

[Dennis Singh]

The tiniest moss I have ever seen. Too bad I got algae on it. Millimetre moss

 

[Dennis Singh]

Vesicularia sp. triangle

 

[Dennis Singh]

My favorite picture of all time:


Oriental's version and growing of weeping moss:

details to come later down the road on this sp. of moss

 

[Dennis Singh]

Another snap of cameroon moss. I think this specie is Plagiochcila sp. cameroon

 

[Dennis Singh]

Genesis


First there was java moss (taxiphyllum species) then there was Xmas moss (vesicularia sp.) so on and so on

 

[Dennis Singh]

Fish or fauna always compliments a nice moss tank