Hello everyone, I've tried searching but to no avail did I find an answer. I am currently trying to prepare an aquarium for my guppies which are living in an aquarium filled with moss and its pretty dark I barely see them.

I already prepared a second aquarium with the filter, water placed, simple decorations + a marimo. I am thinking that a UV light may replace the use of anti-chlorine for my guppies but afraid that the light may affect my marimo.

My question here is (1) will the UV light affect my marimo and (2) will it prevent the use of anti-chlorine?

I have yet to purchase the UV light, and I saw that the power is 9 watt at the fish shop. Kindly advice please!

Thank you leeyung for clarifying details with me over PM, you certainly helped me alot! The marimo that I have placed in the aquarium with my guppies seemed unsecure. Some of the guppies are aggresively kissing them! I'm wondering are they kissing or infact, eating.

The other day I was cleaning 2 of my marimos. After squeezing the water out of them I let them float on the surface and sink down on their own..
In an hour, 1 sank to a spot behind my filter and a plant, which is near a corner. The other marimo was still floating so I went to sleep, when I woke up the marimo has sank next to the other one.

Amazing how these 2 marimo of mine always pair together after I clean them and drop them back in the aquarium, must be some kind of relationship between them lol.

Mine have a yellow spot But it has been like that for some time, hopefully the area don't expand...

I will try if conditions get worst >< don't want to separate them

wa, every night? how you do it, just put them in a cup of water with salt and put in the fridge?

Haha, I use the tap water to soak and rinse then squeeze them but never in the fridge

Unless you feed them well I have 15~ longkang guppies and snails in my tank, marimos seem fine with the neighbours..

Serious!? What snails are those? My snails invaded my tank when I bought one of those 1.50rm plants from the LFS. Now I can't get them removed 100% they will eventually breed again!

The snails in my aquarium...

LuQEE, what is a snail trap?

Edit: Just read an article on that, do you mean to DIY a small trap?

This post has been edited by Malformed: May 15 2012, 11:42 AM

Haha, thanks for the suggestion! Go curi some cucumber from the fridge later this evening!

Thank you

When you say munch, you mean your marimo is getting bald?

Congrats

This post has been edited by Malformed: May 16 2012, 02:01 PM

Actually those carbon media has to be changed with biological media right

Emergency! My marimo balls are in bad shape! They are totally brown in color, one of it has little green left. Is there any way to save them? They were out of the tank for 1 month, in a bottle.. I think it was due to lack of nutrients / sunlight that caused this.. Finally back with me, I placed them back in a planted tank hoping they can recover in months time.

I gave it to my girlfriend to keep, thinking it should be easy to maintain, but after a week or two it started turning yellow. And I did not have the time to get it back, so it waited for a month. Now it's back with me, I quickly returned it to the tank.

What is the procedure I should follow to put them in the fridge?

Please view the differences of the marimos in the two different photos. Quality not that well though.

Can I cure them?

I can't say exactly how long, but I don't think is whole day. I forgotten the fact, because I had it under my light, so I told her to put it under the sun. It is my bad forgetting the basic needs for the marimos I will keep them in the tank hoping the environment can recover them.

And maybe change the fake plants to real

I like to see the plants living well in the tank The idea of keeping them alive is challenging.