The starter method is to whirl some moss in a blender with buttermilk, but I've never tried it.

I haven't had much success with the tropical pillow or sheet mosses myself, probably because my vivariums are all pretty wet and lack both the high light and ventilation many mosses require. Neither does it seem to hold up with the frogs trampling it. The Java moss works well for me. This grows both in and out of water, but is rather long and needs trimming relatively often. Sometimes the long brown New Zealand type sphagnum will "come alive" and grow, but it too, is rather loose. Often the wood and cork bark will sprout mosses if you don't sterilize it. I'll see if I can get a photo of some cork bark that has grown various mosses (and ferns) that weren't planted.






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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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