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Well, sort of. I am sure it is not something new but its new to me. The story behind it is also of interest i think. It seems to testify to the hardiness of the mosses. Just after the new year, I went home for Christmas. Home for me is southeastern Ohio but I live in New England now. Anyway, one thing I wanted to do while I was home was check out the local lake for driftwood, rocks branches and the like. Now two things. First the lake is mostly drained in the early winter for flood control in the spring so most of the lake is only up to 12' in the summer and almost dry in the winter. Also, at the time when I was home the weather had been bitterly cold for a while. The entire time I was there it never went above 20` F. I found some nice pieces of driftwood in varying weathered states.
I packed the pieces, which were mostly dry and frozen in a box, in my suitcase and brought them back. They sat around and dried out for close to month before I decided to use one as a centerpiece for a 10 gall low light. I am impatient so instead of soaking and boiling and all I washed it well and used some fishing line to tie it to a piece of slate and put it in my tank.
About 2-3 weeks ago I decided to vamp up the scape a bit and so I pulled the wood out to tie some anubias and ferns to. In the process I relieve I had mossed some mud adn leaf litter so I decided to scrub it off again in the sink. While doing so I found what looked like moss on the underside. It was all brown and I figured it was dead but I decided, what the heck and put some of it in a shallow bowl with some water in my emerged setup. Today I discovered it was growing. Very small and new growth but it is a lovely bright green and there are numerous "branches"about 1/8-1/4 inch long. It looks like pics I have seen of erect moss or something. Actually, it looks a lot like Geo's "nano" moss from a while back.
I just wanted to share this. Sorry
Also, does anyone have any ideas to help it survive. I would have to kill it at this point. Some of the growth seems to be above water. Should I try to separate out the obviously live stuff. How can I best continue to propagate this.
Thanks
I packed the pieces, which were mostly dry and frozen in a box, in my suitcase and brought them back. They sat around and dried out for close to month before I decided to use one as a centerpiece for a 10 gall low light. I am impatient so instead of soaking and boiling and all I washed it well and used some fishing line to tie it to a piece of slate and put it in my tank.
About 2-3 weeks ago I decided to vamp up the scape a bit and so I pulled the wood out to tie some anubias and ferns to. In the process I relieve I had mossed some mud adn leaf litter so I decided to scrub it off again in the sink. While doing so I found what looked like moss on the underside. It was all brown and I figured it was dead but I decided, what the heck and put some of it in a shallow bowl with some water in my emerged setup. Today I discovered it was growing. Very small and new growth but it is a lovely bright green and there are numerous "branches"about 1/8-1/4 inch long. It looks like pics I have seen of erect moss or something. Actually, it looks a lot like Geo's "nano" moss from a while back.
I just wanted to share this. Sorry
Thanks