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	Micro sword?
123mjb Enthusiast Posts: 215 Kudos: 226 Votes: 13 Registered: 31-Mar-2004	Has anyone heard of it? is it the same as java moss? the live aquaria link http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=26&pCatId=805&TopCatId=1630[/href][href]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
littlemousling Conchiform Posts: 5230 Registered: 23-Aug-2003	Very different from Java moss. It's a grass-like plant hat requires very high light, a good substrate, good nutrients, and even then most people have no success with it. Pretty plant though. -Molly Visit shelldwellers.com!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
123mjb Enthusiast Posts: 215 Kudos: 226 Votes: 13 Registered: 31-Mar-2004	oh... ok Thank you!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
mattyboombatty Moderator Tenellus Obsessor Posts: 2790 Kudos: 1507 Votes: 1301 Registered: 26-Mar-2004	My microsword is doing pretty well in about 3wpg. Just gravel for a substrate, but I have DIY CO2 and I'm dosing ferts. I haven't seen a great ammount of growth like the rest of my plants but there is some growth and it is definitely not dying off. Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
aquatexan Banned Posts: 151 Votes: 1 Registered: 03-Aug-2004	They are one of the harder species of plants to keep. Only a select few, i have heard of, have really gotten it to grow and flourish.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
Falstaf Fish Addict Posts: 785 Kudos: 1211 Votes: 196 Registered: 12-Feb-2004	It's not as hard if you fulfill it's requirements, which is a lot of iron, water and substrate, and high lighting, it's slow growing and it will take a while before you can see it. I plant the runners in a spiral like clump and you can see after a while how the clump grows bigger and bigger from the center out. Often confussed with Lilaeopsis Novae-zelandiae.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
123mjb Enthusiast Posts: 215 Kudos: 226 Votes: 13 Registered: 31-Mar-2004	Thanks!!!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
littlemousling Conchiform Posts: 5230 Registered: 23-Aug-2003	Falstaf - I suspect a lot of the problem is that several related species are being sold under the same common name, and while some can be grown with not too much effort, several are well nigh impossible. Probably depends a good bit on who your plant supplier is, whether you can get it to grow. -Molly Visit shelldwellers.com!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44
Falstaf Fish Addict Posts: 785 Kudos: 1211 Votes: 196 Registered: 12-Feb-2004	Yep, I agree and I see it all the time at LFS, specially with crypts, valls, swords and saggitarias. if you don't know what you are getting, it can really become a problem, they have such different requirements that that's why I think people get disappointed easily with live plants. They think they get something and they get something else.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:44


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