i serperated my sick marimo when i went for holiday last week. when i came back.today it seems like grownlots of new hair. but funny thing is the water smells. like taken out fr longkang, so i rinse it and change the water, still the same.

Hello!

I'm a new owner of marimo, they're so cute! But i do not know how to tell a real/fake marimo. Hope experts here can help me see if mine is real? Thank You!

Maybe you can try gently squeezing your marimo over the sink so the dirty water inside of it comes out. Then you can rinse it and put it back in the tank. Hope it works, no guarantee though

I'm not an expert, but they look pretty real to me. I would wait for leeyung to confirm this though.

Can pm me price marimo from nano to giants..thanks

The first time i saw Marimo is when one day my classmate in Uni brought hers from to our classes , its indeed very nice and soothing to look at. i'm also interested to get one for my gf, PM me the price also do you ship to east malaysia?
and how to differentiate if fake or original?

In my opinion, actually there are no fake or real marimo. It just depend on the conditions. But there are 2 location where marimo spawn either from German or Japan Hokaido. Beside, the two located marimo's condition will be different. A healthy marimo will have fresh green color and round shaped.

I would say, there is real and fake Marimo in market..... Some seller like to cheat people saying their Marimo is from Japan..... so that people will buy from them, but end up their marimo doesnt last long n gets brown easily.... so these are the lousy quality marimo n we call them as 'fake' as thy r not from Japan. A japan marimo, which people used to say the "real" marimo will instead stay green colour after even a long time...... unless the owner neglect them larrrr......

So, if want to get real Marimo, better buy from trustable seller, our big Marimo boss Leeyung...... guess u can view around his good feedbacks from first page of this thread here.....

P.S: Try to avoid some seller as in post #2680.... His successful threadlist are just too fake.... no offense, just that Sharing is Caring!

hi guys... few question to ask about my marimo.... (attach with my marimo pic)

1- is it normal that my marimo having some area very dark green and some area light green???

2- also base on these pictures i posted below, is my marimo consider turning to yellowish?? my seller told me is already turn into yellowish, asked me to put minor salt and put into fridge... i wanted to cure it too, but my home fridge is full =___= no place to put... but to me, it still looks pretty green tho... (can see a little pinch bit yellowish, but i still categorize it as green).... so to all experts out there, is this consider yellowish and needed to be treated specially?

3- i read online, i do notice there are people putting into fridge too, but there are some information about putting into fridge can kill marimo too due to freezing. so how ar? im a bit confused here... i don wanna keep disturb my seller somehow since i found this marimo club here... can any expert here explain to me? to cure it need to put into fridge, but putting into fridge can freeze and kill it. +_@ confused...

4- does marimo float itself??? for what i notice... if i wash and squeeze all water from marimo and drop it back into water, it will definitely float for sure... but if i squeeze the marimo INSIDE the water (i assume im squeezing all trapped air), it will definitely drop back into water for sure... for my understanding, marimo will sink and float itself... so my question is, does marimo float itself?? and if my marimo nvr float itself... does that mean something wrong with it? sick? or what? (im going to try leave it a week no change water, no squeezing see will it float or not...)

5- what is the right temperature for marimo? as u can see im using glass bowl, is hard for me to get any chiller or any gadget to cool it down... and also my room cant be 24hours running aircond... i tried temperature meter once, it was around 30c.... i feel a bit high... but what is the right temperature for marimo for it to stay healthy? Malaysia is so bloody hot... tropical country...

6- any glass bowl marimo owner here? care to share ur trick to reduce temperature?

7- im thinking to get some shrimps for it... i know marimo nonit feed anything, but how about shrimps? i guess there must have some shrimps owner here as well right??? what should i feed it?? or mixing it with marimo it will just eat marimo brownish area bit by bit thus nonit feed it at all??? (read some where shrimps eat marimo yellowish/brownish area to keep it healthy?)

8- any recommended shrimps seller?? saw few at petstore in forum here but not sure which 1 is good dealer with healthy shrimps... since my seller told me to seek in forum instead of pet safari, as he said pet safari shrimps not so healthy compare to forumer seller..



below is my marimo attachment











This post has been edited by DeeteeCG: Jul 9 2013, 02:21 PM

Hi guys,
I'm new here,
I was wondering,
I bought these marimos from Ebay and it traveled from asia to belgium.
I think these marimos are strange looking, they seem to have a diffrent texture then the pictures on this topic and they are not that green, they are more yellowish.
Are these real marrimos?
Are they maybe sick or something?
Thanks !





This post has been edited by Freak5ke: Jul 13 2013, 07:36 AM

Yes, I think you are right. These marimos do look sick to me. I'm not really an expert on marimos, but perhaps you could try a fridge spa or putting a little bit of salt in their water. Also, do not give them direct sunlight, ever.

Tnx for your fast reply
How long should they be in the fridge? (it's very dark in there)
Does it matter how much water they have in there?
Thanks!

This post has been edited by Freak5ke: Jul 13 2013, 09:19 AM

You are welcome! I haven't actually used the fridge spa yet, but a lot of people use it as a way of curing sick marimos. I think that one or two days would be best- marimos are capable of going without sun for longer periods of time, but you don't want to freeze them to death. I think the water level you had in the pictures should be good. Any water level should be fine, you just need a good amount of water in there, enough to make sure it won't freeze too quickly. Happy to help! Good luck with your marimos, hope they get better soon!

tnx SneezyWhale
I'll try it out and I'll let u know if it worked or not

Cool! Hope it works.

And to make this post relevant to marimos-

http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Plant,%20J...oss%20Balls.htm

This website contains an interesting experiment a few people did on some marimos!

This post has been edited by SneezyWhale: Jul 13 2013, 09:34 PM

thank you for the info

yes.. im worried to buy for her the fake one. okay will check it out. thank you for your info!

anyone still selling marimos please pm me price and size would love to buy each for my bettas Thx~!

no one replies me at all

Noticed that u mentioned ur seller told u that ur Marimo already turned into yellowish............ Mind to share with us who is ur seller???? A lil curious......... wondering is it ur seller is the same seller *cute_miao* as what ekestima and melisa91's friend complained??? If yes, i dont mean to offend but no doubts this seller been selling problematic and sick Marimo........from what others have discussed here............... Found out from his/her thread that his successful threadlist are just too fake............ where u see *same people* acting as customers posting again n again in the thread..... guess we all needa survey around first to avoid being cheated..............