kiwiplymouth Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Mine arrived last friday but the pieces were so damn small you could hardly see them. I had a good moan to the seller and 20 new pieces that are the advertised 2-3cm in length are being supplied f.o.c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Probably best to grow some emersed as a pot plant to keep as backup. It will probably propagate a lot quicker emersed as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Mine is due to arrive this week so hopefully it will be the correct size or I'll be joining KP and complaining as well. If I keep some aside to grow in a pot is this just like growing a pot plant or do I need to do something else :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 If it is a native it will be used to our temperatures but mosses generally like to be in very moist conditions. Plenty of water and cool conditions I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiplymouth Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 My larger pieces arrived today. My camera is not good enough to get good macro shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 It looks like it may have been grown submersed from wild caught emersed and so will not be able to be grown emersed straight off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted August 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Nice shots KP, how is it deemed rare if its nz native and can be found in our streams though? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Nice shots KP, how is it deemed rare if its nz native and can be found in our streams though? :-? someone deemed rigidifolia rare and that can be ordered off the list. :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Wow cool pics. Gosh I want some of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesarz Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 I actually found heaps of submerged Homalia sp in a creek in Christchurch. Bundles and bundles of them looking like wiry java moss. I took a little bit (less than a handfull) and chucked half of it in the tropical tank and half in the coldwater tank. They both grew so slow that I concluded that I'd rather have the java type mosses instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 My homalia arrived today and its so tiny I can do absolutely nothing with it. I have emailed the seller and await the response. Looks not even particularly like the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted August 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 has anyone been satisfied with this plant yet? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 moss shouldn't be sold by the cm. there is a reason it is sold as a bunch. im sure the plants are salvageable, but it wont be all that easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 moss shouldn't be sold by the cm. there is a reason it is sold as a bunch. im sure the plants are salvageable, but it wont be all that easy. I doubt it - there are only 5 pieces big enough for me to pick up without a pair of tweezers. Any way I will give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted August 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 goodluck post pics if it manages to grow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 So... did they manage to grow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 not at all. They sent me some more but it was no better. Too small to attach - the only way to attach it would have been to superglue it on like you do corals. I tied it on with cotton but it didn't grow and finally just went mushy and dissolved. I have seen, since then I think in the native section people with fissendens in their tanks. It might have been blueether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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