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Only my weeping moss is turning white
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Are you sure it is not the tips turning a bright, light green ???
- Weeping moss is characterised by its hanging growth-habit and bright, light green tips - this is why it's given the name...
It could very well be, that the added CO2 induced brighter, and more of, new growth.
Vesicularia's (Weeping is a Vesicularia) tends to need more CO2 and light, than Taxiphyllum's (the Java is a Taxiphyllum).
- Weeping moss is characterised by its hanging growth-habit and bright, light green tips - this is why it's given the name...
It could very well be, that the added CO2 induced brighter, and more of, new growth.
Vesicularia's (Weeping is a Vesicularia) tends to need more CO2 and light, than Taxiphyllum's (the Java is a Taxiphyllum).
zozo
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Did you use peroxide ore liquid carbon to kill off agea? Liquid carbon overdose?
zozo
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Ok i've had moss turning gray or kinda white lookin in color.. 🙂 It wasn't weeping moss but peacock or christmas, i guess it's not much of a difference.. I did use peroxide and also some liquid carbon as algicide. I asumed it was dead algea or just dead moss. I had staghorn and hair algea in my moss, dead stag turns red and dead clado turns gray/white.. To know for sure you would need to look at it with some magnification, cheap little pocket microscoop already does reveal if it's just dead or infested. 🙂 Without it best guess is just dead. 😉
Anyway I did cut it away and it just grew on again healthy.. 🙂
Anyway I did cut it away and it just grew on again healthy.. 🙂
zozo
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Fun, isn't it??
Nature will always be mystery to us. The day it isn't anymore we have created life.. Lets hope it never happens.. 🙂
zozo
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It could be an accumulation of rhizoid growth.. Mosses, liverworths and ferns do not attach with roots in substrate as other plants do.. Tho plants also develope rhizoid growth on there roots commonly called hairroots, but you don't see them after all they are in the substrate. Those rhiziods are strains of cells it uses to attach to surfaces.
The first time i noticed this was with bolbitis fern i did put in a crack of a piece of driftwood not far from the glass. And after a while it grew a greyish/white fluffy cotton like plush on it's rhizome and rootstrains. It's easily misindentified as fungus or beard algea but it isn't.
Here you see a close up of that growth on one of my bolbitis ferns.
Moss also attaches like this to hardware. Here you see a close up of rhizoid growth on a liverworth
and here on a leavemoss like javamoss or weeping etc. see the white fluffy stuff down at the rock
In your case your moss is probably not dying but just growing and branching out, reaching out for something to attach to and developing rhizoid growth on it's tips.. 🙂
But as said without a close magnified look it's just a guess, it looks like that as it also looks like it could be something else. 🙂 I can't find a pic back of the dying hair algea on my moss, which looks strikingly simular, but more faul.
The first time i noticed this was with bolbitis fern i did put in a crack of a piece of driftwood not far from the glass. And after a while it grew a greyish/white fluffy cotton like plush on it's rhizome and rootstrains. It's easily misindentified as fungus or beard algea but it isn't.
Here you see a close up of that growth on one of my bolbitis ferns.
Moss also attaches like this to hardware. Here you see a close up of rhizoid growth on a liverworth
and here on a leavemoss like javamoss or weeping etc. see the white fluffy stuff down at the rock
In your case your moss is probably not dying but just growing and branching out, reaching out for something to attach to and developing rhizoid growth on it's tips.. 🙂
But as said without a close magnified look it's just a guess, it looks like that as it also looks like it could be something else. 🙂 I can't find a pic back of the dying hair algea on my moss, which looks strikingly simular, but more faul.
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