at night they are in aircond room,is that enough?
day time i try to put some ice cubes in it if i remember to..

@ck.chunkeat : hmm air con temperature around 19 to up..
but In fridge the temperature can reach 16 celcious..so that's better

This post has been edited by Azure_Fox: Sep 1 2012, 04:19 PM

Domestic fridges should be between 4-10C max. Any warmer and you'll turn it into a garbage box

just sharing my Video..
actually there is 5 Super Giants in the house..but the aquarium is so small..
so I put another in the Jug and in the Bottle...
3 of them are mine, the other two are my cousins^^
I was trying this aquarium setting.. somehow the hair fillaments keep release from marimo;s body +_+
so I put Gauze? (type of fabric that have big pores?) so the hairs don't go into the strainer..
well, then I put them together, and become reaally small marimo...kwkww..





somehow my video can't appear =_=?

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Added on September 2, 2012, 10:20 amwell..
how long do you put sick marimo in the fridge? (24-48) hours
do the marimo need to be given light after that? then put it back in the fridge?
do the water need to be changed everyday for sick marimo?

thank you before.. been read but I got no clue about the detail handling process.. >.<

This post has been edited by Azure_Fox: Sep 2 2012, 10:20 AM

hey there momo peeps!
can anyone advise me where i can buy some crayfish and glass shrimps for my tank?
m currently living in sunway pjs9 and sitiawan

if you are mixing them with your marimos, i dont recommend mixing them with crayfish,
they like to eat everything from my experience, even my hard bogwood
glass shrimps on the other will nibble bit by bits, but in my opinion,
they are eating those black/grey/brown stuffs you noticed when you are washing your marimos.
If you insisted on getting them however, cherry shrimps and CPO/dwarf crayfish is the best. Also, their colours really show some contrast between those greens~
just my 2 cent

It's really great to see that this thread attracted tons of lovely marimo owners. Two thumbs up.

thanks luqee, i appreciate any feedback from the pros around me as im a newbie in aqua pet care
so fascinating!
i will heed ur advise and get the cherry shrimps and dwarf crayfish.

i read that cpo may get aggressive against each other
and some sneaks up behind and attack guppies
true?

i have 4 dragon guppies too

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Added on September 4, 2012, 12:03 pmall thanks to thread starter
then we do our very best to keep our marimo family happy, healthy and most importantly,
ALIVE!

hahaha
brought in 2more members
they very interested in aquascaping x marimo~

This post has been edited by jess7: Sep 4 2012, 12:03 PM

A warning to owners: Don't use soap to wash your tank xD I did it to my office marimos and they've gone quite pale and haven't pearled properly in awhile. Hopefully they haven't died on me yet O.O

do anyone ever experience Marimo with some white hair? O_O"
why is that? should I trim? or it will goes to green again as time goes by?


anyway... made new baby marimo^^ the hair fillaments grow strong and start to hook each other in 4 days



This post has been edited by Azure_Fox: Sep 12 2012, 04:09 PM


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Got pics? It's probably either bacteria or dead filaments O.O

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Added on September 6, 2012, 10:07 pmI have a problem with the salt-water ratio math. Let's say I have a 10L tank, and want to add 5% of the volume in salt to the water (as instructed in the FAQ). 5% of 10L is 500ml.

That's about two cans of coke worth of salt in roughly enough water to fill just under two soccer balls.

Can someone comment on this before I turn my tank into the Dead Sea?

This post has been edited by Kaisergrendel: Sep 6 2012, 10:07 PM

hello, I already include the Pic there..

well, about the salt, 500 Gram surely Right

I was use 200 ML and the salt is 10 gram 1ml=1gram



This post has been edited by Azure_Fox: Sep 14 2012, 04:39 PM

Oh sorry I didn't zoom in on the pic before. To me it looks like dead filaments. You can probably just trim it off if it really bothers you.

The FAQ states the amounts only in volume, not weight. Since salt is denser than water (unless really coarse), you can't assume 1ml of salt = 1 gram. Unless you've measured your own salt and arrived at that formula?

Did some quick research, seawater is generally around 3.5% or 35g/kg. Accounting for the lower density of medium/fine granulated salt, 5% salt in water will yield roughly the same salinity as seawater O.o

Just seems so strange dumping about half a kilo of salt into my tank xD

O_o"
Well.. (I usually Baking Cakes XD and the conversion of 1 ml = 1 gram)
so means the gram is the same as volume (ML) too^^

So half a kilo of salt that u dumped is the right amount, I think

Curious,
why the salt?

*me too* curious XD

kill off bacteria?

From what I read, Marimo's natural environment is brackish water - lake water mixed with seawater. Even though Lake Akan isn't salty anymore, apparently, it used to be.

Just what I read somewhere.

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Added on September 8, 2012, 3:50 pmNah, the concentration isn't high enough. Plenty of bacteria live in saline.

This post has been edited by Kaisergrendel: Sep 8 2012, 03:50 PM

moving to bigger aquarium.....(well my smaller aquarium isn't big enough for this fellas )

a little worried about my 2 super giants here.. the middle and the right one..their colours seems different than others..and their texture different too..
hopefully they're not sick.. (in the metabolism cycle phase?)

This post has been edited by Azure_Fox: Sep 9 2012, 02:18 AM


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mine looks brownish like that since day 1...lol..and i think mine is sick..
Anyway,think they might be sick...shld try to quarantine them and start giving treatment...