manticore Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 hi there, i told you i will get a second red moss. here it is, with pictures also from natural environment. i do not know at this point how it will behave in tanks. it has obviously natural red pigment in tissue. and it lives strictly in water. Kind regards to all shrimpspot members Vinn, RyeGuy411, KlimparOn and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyeGuy411 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Do you know what the water parameters are like in the collection site? I have seen some red moss locally and it is commonly found in very acididic peat bogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manticore Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 in this case water was about pH 6.5 but extremely soft, about 10 microsiemens. A submersed sphagnum species (peatmoss) was in the same area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manticore Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 there are different red peatmosses like sphagnum rubellum, s. magellanicum, s capillifolium or even more. thisone is not a peatmoss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiumanfu Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very nice! Interested to know how it adapts to aquarium parameters. manticore 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manticore Posted July 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 sadly the most interesting red moss that i managed to get, does develop green in tanks. even if it is that gorgeous and lives totally submerged in nature, i realy tried it with co2, very high light, very low light and so on.... it simply wants to grow green. i presume the temperature is to high for it to keep only the red natural coloration. at this point i can say that for this year the testing of red mosses is over as the most interesting species that i hoped will develop red did not bring the expected results. so i can say finally that the ones that hope for a real red moss for their tanks should accept for now that only the purple angel is fit, but that this species need to be grown half submersed half emersed, and that it really grows extremely slow. the other "candidates" as mosses did not made it in the hobby (only as regular green mosses). with these conclusions the "red moss species project" i intended for this year is done (i made documentation research for more than 4 years now about these red mosses) and i will simply focus on the other fissidens species that are still out there. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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