Yupe this is the way to cure the marimos, actually this method is clearly stated in the first post of this thread under FAQ

Crystal stone is actually natural stone that we can put into your aquarium to purify the water. But for marimo tank, recommend to go for coral stone/sand as it controlling your water PH level well.

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Added on March 8, 2012, 4:54 pmRefer post #866 in this thread for more info, been discussed previously

This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 8 2012, 04:54 PM

Great Marimos you have

No problem for table salt, either table salt or synthetic salt will do, regarding ur carpet issue, this is actually been discussed in this thread post #866, kindly refer there for more info (to avoid duplication questions posted )

Just let me know when you have sufficient budget but I cant guarantee the stock availability ya , cutting ur marimo to become carpet is too risky bro, mostly will die, this experiment had been done before

why dont you contact ur seller about this?

From your photos, based on my experiences as marimo seller for so many years, it seems to be a scrap of marimos rather than Carpet, especially the dying parts from your photos . Carpet marimo doesnt look like that form, they tend to be more firm. hehe so don mislead other members about the nature of carpet ler btw why dont you refer back to your seller regarding this issue??how long ur marimo stay from ball to such form?

There can be many reasons, actually had been discussed in this thread #866, another reason which usually happen to new owners is that they mixed wrong combination of water creatures with marimos. The most significant one will be snail

Yes, carpet marimos are in my selling list since many years ago

Haha, thanks for the free ads. FYI, luckily I am not your seller.hehe also, do not misinterpret/mislead other members over here regarding carpet marimo, my selling carpet marimos are in the form of Carpet originally and not like what happen to your marimos ball

This post has been edited by leeyung: Apr 5 2012, 10:34 PM

Must avoid if the pond will have direct sun light as it will kill the marimos

No really worth for this USB mini Aquarium as with that price, you can get a larger size of tank together with good water filter

Cladophora grow rate is pretty low, personally tried it before with all the ways and fertilizer, non of them return significant result, therefore I will advise dont waste your money to get fertilizer for marimos, especially those so called "marimo food" no significant effect on boosting the growing rate. Best will be using coral sand more than enough as coral sand do control and stabilize the water PH level

On top of all answers above, I as a marimo seller for many years, there is a member pop me a question today, how to differentiate grade A or grade B on your marimo, I felt this is pretty funny as some sellers attempt to create their own Grading System to grade their marimos, these grading are created by their own as gimmick to attract buyers and at the same time low down others reputations. IMHO, there is no such Grade A B C D etc bla bla bla, if Crystal Shrimp then got Grade CRS etc la, a big nono to marimo, no such grading system unless named by ownself

No problem for spectrum below 6.5K if your marimos is origin Cladophora species

haha bro, you meant "owned" is it? Nice to hear that btw!

Haha, nice setup bro, no problem for your light source, for your carpet, I think will be great if you use a stone put on top of it (where the carpet's top is facing down from your photo ) let it saturate at bottom then only take out the stone, bcuz if the water flow is too strong, may make ur carpet into pieces

cute rite

Yeah, carpet is pretty cute

This post has been edited by leeyung: Apr 11 2012, 09:01 PM

haha, your colleague very humour, no matter how i imagine, it doesnt look like a hamster ler

Yeah, one of my marimos tank also put together with algae eater, pleco or algae pretty safe with marimo Like video below



Nice to hear that Great, we are growing out lowyat marimo community!

Haha, the fan looks cool, some of my frens even have chiller, cool~

Haha, but it seems to be a turbo fan bro,

Congratz

Marimo multiply through division & propagation Since growth rate of marimo pretty low, therefore same for multiplying

Actually price range should not be used as a standard to differentiate a genuine marimo and a so called fake German marimos. Take for example, some seller who sells a Giant marimo at RM40 and another seller who sells at RM80 each. Sometimes seller have to consider their profit range due to certain constraints, like shop rental, advertisement and etc. So, taking into account of this, they set their margin very high and sometimes people thought expensive things is genuine.

If you ask me, I, as the first pioneer Marimo seller in LYN, the best way to differentiate a genuine marimo and a fake one is not by the looks and definitely not by the price, but is by the texture of the marimo. For instance, I have some buyers who showed me some photos from Facebook and Cari saying that there is a new Marimo seller who said German marimo and Hokkaido marimo can be judged by the ‘fur’.

Seriously, if you think twice, if long fur = German, and short fur = Hokkaido, how about those who trim the long fur bcome short fur, from German change species become Hokkaido? This is the trick played by some sellers to paint black other sellers marimos genuineness.

Not only that, Marimos are natural living creature which lives in the deep level of Hokkaido for many years. Marimos are able to grow naturally without needing any nutrients to boast their growth as what they need are clean water and sufficient sunlight. Just like any other plants, these are the basic needs for them to make food.

Seriously they DO NOT need any ‘Vitamins’ or liquid which claims to kill germs in water and stable the ph level. These are just gimmicks from the seller to earn money. Actually the vitamins is the same with those used for aquariums, just different packaging and claimed from ‘Japan’ and they are selling RM40 per bottle. The same nutrients for aquariums can be found in fish shop for RM5 or so on.

Recently I also notice some sellers who tend to copycat people’s quote in Lowyat and treat it as their own sayings. If the seller is really a genuine marimo seller and has a good judgement on Marimos, why do he/she need to copy my quote and paste bulat bulat in his/her facebook? A big question mark to me

So, back to conclusion, buyers must know how to judge themselves about this ‘trick’ on genuineness and fakeness. Like my case, I have been selling marimo as 1st pioneer marimo seller in lowyat since several years ago and the price range doesn’t fluctuate much as I tend to sell the marimo at reasonable price yet quality assured as genuine marimos. Just look at my feedbacks at my personal selling thread, unlike others claiming false info saying others marimos are fake etc then say himself/herself one as genuine, painting other competitors doesnt reflect their genuineness. The best way to know genuine or not is to judge the seller's customers feedback. Just my 2 cents. I hope our Marimo sharing club can grow healthily with more and more Marimo lovers

Definitely it will "burger" your marimos if you away for few days

Good, we need more member like you read before ask nvm you can always refer here when there is any issue, or pop your question here Nice bubbling, you must be having fresh water over there

great haha

Been long time no sharing out my personal collections for the marimos. Therefore, today I am going to share out one of my personal collection marimo tanks.

Some of you may following one of my posts over HERE,

These marimos photo is actually taken on last year September, that time they are newly reach my hand


After several months with proper tank setup and my great maintenance, the result turned significantly +ve. Well, I am not going to share out how is the maintenance and tank setup ways due to some spy eyes of unethical sellers over here which will creating false information and mislead other members. These are the photos

P/S:Exactly the same tank, same batch of marimos only in different time and date when I take the photos , all photos are originally from my tank, non of them are google found one

These are the results with optimum tank setup












P/S: NO "Marimo food" or "Marimo nutrients liquid" or "Marimo Treatment water" at all for my marimos. Proper tank setup play with water and light only. These kind of liquids totally useless and waste of time according to my experiments and experiences as 1st Pioneer marimo seller in LYN. Therefore, this proves that those so called "food" from other sellers are totally useless and waste of money. Better save the money for better tank setup.

This post has been edited by leeyung: Apr 26 2012, 04:05 PM

Haha, quoted from my previous post, why still wan to waste your time and $ bro

Haha bro, faster go grab your new tank, horlicks glass marimos said too small for them haha, grab a nice aquarium then you will have at least something like this



You can refer here for more my recent share Photos

Thanks bro They really look happy with my optimum tank setup haha eh, maggi mee mamak stall also ada what, maggie goreng ayam, price can match with MacD lunch ler

In fact bigger tank with proper setup, the temperature can go down very significant and easy to control. Very simple theory, larger tank = better water flow = easier to bring down water temp, use inwater thermometer for more precise measurement, stick on glass one not accurate one

haha let the gold fish sit in the new tank, 2.5ft for 2 gold fish, macam too big for them ler LoL, btw why ur temp so high? 2.5ft bro, with filter, at least 28-30 what, too much bacteria over there?

This post has been edited by leeyung: Apr 27 2012, 12:08 PM

haha, for the fengsui vs the gold fish, then gonna see how large is the size of your gold fish, if palm size then the space is just enough for them icic, no wonder the temp so high, that is the reason bro hehe I currently also hunting another new decorative tank