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lotusprout · 07-03-2009, 09:05 AM

Hey I'm new here, my name is Sonia and I'm from canada ^.^. I own two freshwater planted tanks (10gal & 15 gal) My 15 gal tank has been set up for about a year now, so yeah I'm still not an expert but I'm sure I'll learn a lot from being here! Right now I'm waiting for some plants from Aquaticmagic including star moss...now I've made some research and I found that they weren't submersible, that it grows on concrete and that most people found that it died after about 3 months in an aquarium...so I asked Aquaticmagic about it and this is what they replied:

"You have done the right search, but we have been more successful with Star Moss. Many of our customer thought world has been buying and planting it in there aquarium with 100% success.
High Co2, high light, weekly water changes. Star moss is actually called "Concrete Moss". It grows submerged on concrete. Apparently it likes high alkalinity, maybe the rocks that the moss is on makes it happy."

Now I'm only confused...did the moss die only because it wasn't submerged on concrete? Did anyone try to make it grow and succeeded?

07-03-2009, 09:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
lotusprout Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 14 iTrader Ratings: 0 Plant Points: 1450	Hi everyone! Hey I'm new here, my name is Sonia and I'm from canada ^.^. I own two freshwater planted tanks (10gal & 15 gal) My 15 gal tank has been set up for about a year now, so yeah I'm still not an expert but I'm sure I'll learn a lot from being here! Right now I'm waiting for some plants from Aquaticmagic including star moss...now I've made some research and I found that they weren't submersible, that it grows on concrete and that most people found that it died after about 3 months in an aquarium...so I asked Aquaticmagic about it and this is what they replied: "You have done the right search, but we have been more successful with Star Moss. Many of our customer thought world has been buying and planting it in there aquarium with 100% success. High Co2, high light, weekly water changes. Star moss is actually called "Concrete Moss". It grows submerged on concrete. Apparently it likes high alkalinity, maybe the rocks that the moss is on makes it happy." Now I'm only confused...did the moss die only because it wasn't submerged on concrete? Did anyone try to make it grow and succeeded?