zen

Hi all, this is my 4ft Moss Tank for your comment.

I have always been fascinated by different species of moss. Their small little bright green fronds pointing to a general direction never fails to give me a tranquil feeling and sooth my nerve after a hard day work.

@TOMMY@

That's a lot of moss. Simple yet nice!

John N.

Very Nice Maurice! Welcome to the Forum! You have a lovely tank there. Is it possible to get a larger shot of the tank? Or maybe even some close ups of the left, middle and right sections.

What types of moss are you keeping in there? I've always wanted to do a moss tank. And you are giving me inspiration to try it. I would like to hear any tips, trimming, and how long it took you to achieve this setup.

-John N.

Mikee

wow! seeing these moss tanks is really inspiring. I love to see these moss tanks once everything is a bit grown out and covering the driftwood. I agree with zen the different types of moss is very fascinating it also gives you a good feeling once everything has grown out and looks nice and fluffy. I plan 2 do this with my 2.5 ft tank using different types of moss like weeping, fissidens ect and id also like to hear tips on how you get your moss to grow so nice (lighting, any co2? ferts?) i think i like these moss tanks the most! and i know shrimps would love to live in there well done!

Burks

I have to agree with John, bigger pictures!

From that distance the tank looks great. Up close I bet it looks even better.

How long did it take you to grow the tank out like that?

zen

Thanks for all the encouraging comments

It took me a year plus and several failed attempts to understand moss. The key to lushy growth of moss is temperature. In my country, it is warm all round with average temperature ranging 28-30 degree celcius. I added a fan and at most i could only bring the temperature down to 27-28 degree C. I bought a chiller in the beginning of this year, and have been keeping the tank temperature to 25degree C. This is the first time I have seen a little improvement in growing moss.

The tank is co2 enriched with 4 wpg of light. For fert, i am doing EI and TMG. Although I have another low tech tank with good moss growing rate, I find that having good co2, light and fert will certainly speed up the growth.

I have not done any trimming since I started this tank half a year ago. I just pull them out once they get too thick.


Close of the following mosses in the tank:

Erect moss (vesicularia reticulata)


Weeping moss (vericularia sp.)


Spiky moss (Taxiphyllum sp.)


A ball of unidentified moss

kweeheng

fantastalicious

Rek

very nice

Mikee

beautiful. I have no experience really with moss my tank is usually 25C is moss a fairly easy plant to grow? are ferts neccessary or is it just to speed growth more?

zen

Mike, give it a try. They are not that difficult, but they are quite slow at the initial stage to get use to your water condition. When they are ready to take off, you will see bright green buds at the tip of the fronds. Your tank temperature is just right for most species of moss.

As regards fert for moss, i can't be absolutely sure that fert is not neccessary for moss but I've seen beautiful moss in "low tech" tanks (no fert, no water change only top ups, low light). However, one thing is clear that the same species of moss grow comparatively very much faster in co2 enriched, high fert and light tanks. And another sure thing is low temperature, clean water and NO SAEs