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Where would be a good place to buy Java Moss? Is this a good moss to use in a terrarium?

Thanks,
Mark

ITs fantastic in a tropical terrarium! Take a look at Black Jungle's site. I believe they sell it and have pictures of how its spread in a tank just after a few months. I've seen it being bid on Ebay too if Black Jungle doesn't have any. Otherwise, a site that sells aquarium plants will have it.

Maggie

Java moss needs good light and to be moist all the time (it actually likes being in water all the time).. You can get it sometimes at a local aquarium store.. you can also find it on ebay regularly and on aquabid.com as well.
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Java moss is excellent in general. It will grow under water and on wet land, up cork bark, over fern panel drip systems, and on water falls, and makes a great biological filter. It is also easily controlled if it gets where you don't want it. Just rip it off now and then or cut it back. Although it does need light, it needs less than most pillow mosses. It is a sturdy moss that will take a lot of trampling by the larger dart frogs. The downside is that it is rather long and more scraggly than a pillow moss, so needs trimming off fairly often, especially against the sides of a tank, or pulling up from the aquarium section of a paludarium. But this is easy to do. It doesn't resemble a golf course or mowed lawn.

I think I got my original start of Java moss from Black Jungle, too. I sure never needed another one. All I have to do to start Java in a new tank is pull a bit of it out of the paludarium and lay it on top of wherever I want it to grow, and it usually does, as long as the substrate is on the wet side and the light is decent.

These four Phylobates vittatus are hunting among Java moss in a 55 gallon corner bow tank.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
4 P. terribilis
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus