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..



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

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