Java Moss Portion in 4 Oz Cup - Easy Live Fresh Water Aquarium Plants

I was surprised to see that they filled the 4 oz cup very well I was happy with the amount. But I am also glad I purchased 2 orders 4 Oz is well 4 Oz.. It survived it's trip very well, I was a little worried since it did take 10 days to arrive and the weather is cooling so fast. Of course it's just a twisted clump of it now. But Java fern is suppose to grow fast so I am excited. Since I have a well established aquarium with no snails, I am treating it with ParaGard to kill any unwanted organism such as snails and any micros such as Ick (JUST IN CASE). I don't know if after the ParaGard treatment if I should treat it in an algaecide. In the past my tanks have been infected with green hair like algae that was very very difficult to treat. I am happy with my orders, but I don't think I will have to order Java Fern again because it's reported to be a fast growing plant. If I remember I will will send photos and update this posting. I felt like this was a great price for this plant. Thank you, Todd Delaroderie 10 days ago I picked out all the "greener" pieces and throw out all the brown pieces. I still had a nice amount. I made a light wire webbing out of light weight wire. This is my first time at this. I placed the bulk of the moss in the webbing and twisted it up to hold it in place. Ok, maybe I damaged it a little while quarantining it with ParaGard and/or wrapped it up too tight. It's alive and seems to be growing. But it's not a brilliant green but any stretch of the imagination. It's not brow either, just a brownish green if that's possible. My cherry shrimps love it. The moss is covering up the wires so you can no longer see them. It seems to be growing. I'll update in another week or 2. Hopefully, this will help set what you will experience as well. Sincerely, Todd Delaroderie

I'm not sure why the writing prompt wants me to mention thickness and warmth lol! It's moss! Not a blanket! Anyway! I attached several pictures because I was surprised at how much moss came out of the cup! It was packed in there! But, it was "happy" too. It wasn't smashed or anything. I added a wine bottle next to the cup just for size reference. The only problem with the pictures is that I feel the quantity of the moss isn't well represented. I felt like I got a whole lot of moss, and the pictures don't really show that. I took the moss out of the cup and put it in a plastic cup with purified alkaline water. I was going to quarantine and disinfect it with seachem prime and potassium parmanganate (as I do with all my aquatic plants before adding them to my pristine aquarium). However, I decided that a simple 7 day quarantine in the alkaline water was good enough because of the wonderful quality of the moss. There were absolutely NO bugs, nor nasty things of any kind. When I was ready to add it to my aquarium I took it out of the cup and gently pulled apart a few bundles. Using some twine that I boiled to disinfect, I wrapped one bundle around this aquarium safe bendable stick I have (which already had a very small amount of moss on it), and I wrapped some plastic mesh around another bundle which I added a few rocks into so it would sink. In a few months I'm hoping for a moss bush. And I just tucked another smaller bundle underneath an ornament. It looks great! It's been just a few weeks and I see new growth on the stick and a bit poking out of the plastic mesh in several spots. The bit I tucked looks relaxed and is making its way out and around. I'm extremely happy with this purchase. Since I've added it to my tank, my Molly has given birth and at least 4 fry have survived! Before the moss, another of my Molly's gave birth and only 1 survived! I'm not in the breeding business, but, I do want to give the creatures I care for the best possible life, and if they are having babies and those babies are surviving and thriving, I'm doing something right. I highly, highly recommend this seller and their moss. Thank you.

Nice portion of Moss. Bits of Brown but I expect it to recover... we will see. I just read about hitchhikers others have received. I better not have any, I expect better from a professional seller. Revision. I attempted to attach the moss to driftwood as I often have. The pieces/ parts of tiny scraps just shredded and are floating all over my tank. This is not a solid clump of moss as you usually get, but rather, tiny little scraps that could have been vacuumed off the floor of the aquarium workshop and shoveled into a little cup.

When I received my Java Moss it was pretty throughly dried out, with about 30-20% of it still green in color. After a good month in my aquarium, the brown dried sections did not improve. Since then I've picked off all the green pieces and tied them to some driftwood, and now they're becoming fluffy and verdant. I know shipping conditions are hard to control and am happy to have received a plant with healthy portions. Small update: Lots and lots of stringy moss of some kind was clearly mixed in. Could be bladderwort. I personally like it but read some consider it an unsightly weed and find it difficult to eliminate. In my low tech tank it grows slowly enough that it would be easy to control. On the plus side I can use the moss as living string to tie other plants to things.

Too small. Trying to get this thing to stay somewhat stationary was next to impossible. The bunch just separated over a few days into the inch, or less, sized pieces and eventually just ended up in the filters and pump intake screens. Plant came healthy, looked great, but was just a high maintenance situation that I eventually gave up on and lost. For me, it wasn't a product I will try again, but that's not to say it's a bad product, just not a product for my situation. More of a very calm water type of plant in my opinion.