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Thread: Amazon biotope?
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07-30-2012, 12:32 AM #1
Amazon biotope?
Is there an Amazon-biotope-compatible moss? I really like how it looks and it has a great function, but I want my biotope to remain as such.
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- Loren Eisley
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07-30-2012, 12:42 AM #2
What's wrong with good ol' Java Moss? I've seen people attach it to driftwood and some rocks successfully in Amazon biotopes.
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07-30-2012, 01:43 AM #3
Well, it's not from the Amazon; it's from Asia.
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07-30-2012, 02:19 AM #4
Christmas Moss is alleged in some places to have Brazilian origins. But some think it is actually from SA.
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07-30-2012, 03:06 AM #5
Yeah, I've heard that. Why doesn't anyone know where it's from?
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07-30-2012, 03:11 AM #6
I meant to end my previous post with 'Asia' obviously. (blush)
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It's not that great.~Otto Rohwedder. My optimistic pessimism is tempered with pessimistic optimism.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~Aldous Huxley.
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07-30-2012, 05:28 PM #7
So in the aquarium trade we have Java and Christmas mosses and that's all?
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- Loren Eisley
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07-30-2012, 05:34 PM #8
What? I didn't notice anybody saying that.

Your SA criteria might be limiting the replies, Or nobody is interested enough to look further for you.
Last edited by Goes to 11!; 07-30-2012 at 05:37 PM.
My GF calls me insincere... I pretend to care.
Think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.~George Carlin.
It's not that great.~Otto Rohwedder. My optimistic pessimism is tempered with pessimistic optimism.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~Aldous Huxley.
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07-30-2012, 09:32 PM #9
There is a bunch of different mosses, I'm not too positive on their origins but here's about all the types of mosses that I know: Java, Christmas, Flame, Willow, and Riccia Fluitans (Crystalwort). But I feel like with your Amazon Biotope, if you had that 1-2 Asian plants that were small enough to not be THAT noticeable, you could have your Asian fish no problem. If that makes sense? So it wouldn't JUST be an Amazon Biotope with Asian fish. You would have a little blending point. In my Amazon tank I have Harley's, which aren't even close to native Amazonian tetras.
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07-31-2012, 04:19 AM #10
I couldn't stand to have a biotope with non-biotope plants or animals in it. I'm way too obsessive about that sort of thing. Riccia would work in my other tank though. But I can't find any kind of moss that's from South America.
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