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 Updated: Sunday, 22 October, 2006

Tropical Freshwater Plants

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Ending Wednesday 7 June 2006!

Just did a major trimming of my aquarium plants and end up with some spare plants. I feel sorry to just discard them hence the sale to benefit aquarium hobbyists!! On offers are 6 types of low light easy-to-grow plants:

1. Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus, info) - a bunch of at least 6 plants (3-4 inches)
2. Ludwigia Repens Rubin (info) - a bunch of at least 8 stems (6-10 inches)
3. Anubias barteri nana (info) - one plant with mature stem and roots (3-4 inches)
4. Water Wisteria (Hygrophila difformis, info) - 4 stems (5-7 inches)
5. Christmas/Weeping Moss (Vesicularia sp.; see this thread) - 5” clump
6. Straight Vallisneria (Vallisneria spiralis, info) - a bunch of at least 5 plants (10-14 inches)

These plants are all grown by me in my 60L tank (see my tank setup here and more photos here) with very healthy fish and shrimps (all disease-free!!) and I do not add any medications to my tank but I do dose plant fertilisers (mostly from Seachem).

This moss was originally bought under the the name Java Moss. However, the pattern of growth and the structure of its leaves (more photos here or read about its ID discussion here) seem to suggest that it is not the common Java moss (Taxiphyllum barbieri) but rather the true Vesicularia sp. of either Christmass moss (V. montagne, info) or Weeping moss (V. ferriei, info). From the look of the plant in my tank, it looks more like Weeping moss but the closeup of leaf structure seems to suggest that it is Christmass moss, according to an article on various types of aquatic mosses (Warning!! 6.8MB!!) by Prof Tan from Singapore. Which ever the true ID of this moss, I have managed to grown them attached to driftwood and they tend to grow downwards as shown in the photo below.