How to Propagate Aquarium Moss FAST!!! (My Best Method)
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- I have been propagating Java Moss for several years. Over that time I have continually refined my methods to grow as much moss as fast as possible. In this how to video you will see my preferred method for propagating aquarium moss. This method has not changed in some time now and I don't see it changing anytime soon. Propagating Java Moss or other aquarium mosses is a rewarding process and saves you lots of time and money so you can focus on making more aquascapes or make some money by selling your crop.
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Hi I ma in the uK so cant really buy plants from there. A like and sub will have to be enough for now. Thanks for the tips.
Are u in western WA? Can I pick up an order?
Yes, I am located on the south end of Whidbey island. I only do pickups near here. Shipping locally typically takes one or two days and is quite easy on the plants 🌱
How many of your 2 oz portions would I need to start a 1020 tray like you are using in this video?
As a first time planter, nearly glued my fingers to a rock along with my Java Moss....thankfully its a forgiving moss, and is beginning to spread, slowly, No CO2......what a beautiful addition to any aquarium, does well with light or low light. This will be moss I use in future projects....the idea of it overtaking all of the hardscape is exciting.
Then did u cut your fingers to detach from the rock?
@@mubasheer5584nearly is a keyword.
I really love how you show your methods on cultivating these aquatic plants even though you sell them as well. Love how open you are and I am currently setting up a 40 gallon planted tank and I will definitely be a future customer once I'm ready for plants. Keep up the great work!
I love how every time there's a new update on how to propagate moss, it's always something that's different from your experimenting. Great work!
I’m always tinkering 😊
@@AquariumPlantLab fasi,nating many thanks
I am going to give you an idea for the loss of humidity on your dome lids. There is a silicone tape, made by loktite (sp?) you can find in box stores or hardware stores... I use this product for many things in my fishroom, as it is very universal and has a flexing but not breaking tendency. I would take a strip of this tape and run it along the top of the black trays, slightly stretching it as i run it along the edge, (the slight stretching gives it a bit more adhesion) all four edges and i think the dome will sit on that tray with a bit more of a seal between the dome top and tray... worth a try....cheers, nice vids...
Wow, huge thanks to you and the YT algorithm! I just purchased some java moss in hopes to grow it and your video got recommended out of the blue without me ever searching the topic! Gonna try this for sure!
It would be cool to see how you harvest the moss out of the trays once it is ready
Yeah the best way is to just start in a corner with a spakle knife, the kind used to do drywall or patch holes in drywall, and slowly scrape it up while folding it back over itself and roll it up softly. Then once done unroll it on an appropriate sized cutting board then cut it to size and the shape you need to attach it to something or to package it up for sale. When done use any of the leftover bits to reseed the next propagation box for the next grow cycle.
It’s easy to harvest. It pulls off the trays easily and can be portioned out or used in your tank. A quick rinse in fresh water is a good idea to remove algae and any ferts or debris that may be in the moss. 🌱
@@AquariumPlantLabfresh water meaning distilled? Or just like tap water
@@aristology6912tap is fine
@aristology6912 Tap is totally fine.
Beautiful, I really love those containers!
Do you have any videos showing how much die off can be expected once we put this in our aquariums?
You should have minimal die back with Java moss. Unlike most aquatic plants and even Mosses that experience die off or melting Java Moss doesn't fallow this rule much.
I have grown it in water, out of water, and in half submerged A.K,A in waterfalls and in places where the moss starts growing in water but ends up growing to the point as to where part of it is now out of the water. I have moved some that grew out of the water and moved it into tanks filled with water and the other way around and have seen little to no die off or melting. same goes for the ones that are half and half. I've moved some to full submersion and to full land and have seen little to no die off or melting.
I would be more worried about it being eaten then die off and or melting.
BEST VIDEO
And i literally mean it .
Finally found something on the topic
Thank you 🙏 glad you liked this one :)
That’s crazy! Looks amazing with all of that growth.
Right! I want my whole house carpeted in it 😂
@@AquariumPlantLab Definitely makes me want to try Java moss, again lol
Excellent video . This was perfect timing .I’m starting a project like this for my new paludarium so I can have lots of moss for the water part
Good luck 😉
That's crazy! This video popped up on my feed. I brought 70G of java moss literally yesterday from you.
Great quality! Will be buying again.
Having a set up like this is actually a dream of mine
It's really helpful to have the context of the previous video "How to Propagate Java Moss!!! - Improved Experiment (Setup)" to understand the evolution of the project and the choices made.
Great video, greatly appreciated! I will try this out with willow moss! Greets from Belgium
Thank you! Good luck :)
Wow, I love this option! Thanks for sharing with all of us. 😊
hi, very good informative video, love from India 🇮🇳❤
Thank you 😊
wowww... straight to the point and thanks for sharing this!
Im blown away by this, i sell a few plants ie Subwassatang, Weeping Moss, Flame moss and i grow them all in my Shrimp tanks. Im blown away by this !
I've been trying this with some trays that are used for sprouting microgreens, they are pretty much identical to this setup but at a smaller scale if space is an issue
Thank you Sir for sharing. 👍👍👍👍
Could you share weekly updates on the java moss growth progress?
Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you! That is an interesting idea! Could be fun 🌱
Great video Will. I've been growing Java Moss since April of this year using some of your past videos and have had a fairly decent growth rate. However, after watching this particular video I'm going to be making some adjustments and suspect I'll have some explosive growth. Thanks again for all your videos.
Thank you, Rich! I’m glad you enjoyed this one. If I was to boil it down to the three most important parts I would say lots of drainage, high humidity, and maxigro ferts. I’m sure other ferts would work too but I can attest to maxigro. I’ve found those components to be the key with moss. Good luck with your grow and keep me updated 😃 🌱
great explanation, gave me enough confidence i think im just gonna buy the stuff
Your website looks legit, i think i might choose it over amazon
Pretty straightforward. Subscribed.
I love your videos. I'm curious about the lights you have
Great before & 1 month comparison. Well done video
Hey, I jus found your content recently and have been binging it. I have a few questions though.
Can all moss adapt to living underwater?
Can all moss be grown hydroponically like this?
How would you grow terrestrial moss opposed to aquatic moss if that's a thing?
Thanks in advance!
How does the moss take to being reimersed? Is there a lot of die off?
All plants have to convert, regardless of being grown in or out of water, this is because your environment is different than my environment (or your friends, etc.). This applies to all factors, not just emersed/submersed, factors such as temperature, lighting, fertilizers, water chemistry, co2, etc. Any differences in environment means a plant needs to convert physiologically. With all of that said, most aquarium plants, moss included, should be able to convert well provided you have a reasonable setup to grow plants 👍
Thanks for all you do, Will!
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 😉
Oh my gosh thank you so much for the super thanks! And the reviews on the website! You made my day 😃 🌱 🙏
Excellent video my man. I'm a new subscriber. Thanks for honest, clear, facts! Everybody needs more java moss.. lol- Appreciate the videos!!
Thanks for watching and for the sub! :)
I like the idea of growing my own aquarium plants, great video. I'm sad that you don't ship to Alaska.
Very good video!
Make one of how to grow mini Bolbitis please.
I grow mini bolbitis like how I grow anubias and java fern. Checkout my videos on those topics :)
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks
Can you specify what kind of LED light ? Like does the moss need full spectrum light or what kind? Also a great video keep the content coming.
I always use full spectrum lights. Make sure they are designed for growing plants as such lights produce photosynthetically active radiation which is needed for plant growth.
Very well explained thanks for sharing 💯✌️👍
Thanks for watching 😉
Great video, thank you! Have you tried this method with any other types of moss? I'd be interested to know whether it would work with my coral moss- that stuff was freakin expensive!! :/
I recently purchased my 1st batch of java moss because it's supposedly one of the easiest plants to grow. While waiting for it to arrive I watched your video and thought I could try and propagate some myself because plants are so expensive. I also glued some pieces to some of my rocks and ornaments in my tanks. The pieces I glued to some driftwood and submerged in my tank didn't grow at all. I created my own humidity dome with some tupperware and made a little mesh tray from something I picked up in dollar tree. It's been at least two weeks or more and now a good portion of my propagated set-up is turning brown. I thought I was smart and put it outside for a few days for slightly direct sunlight, I thought it was doing fine for a couple of days, but now I'm pretty sure I am going to need to start from scratch. Do you have any suggestions, is it possible I am over saturating them with water? Or was the direct sunlight just a stupid idea?
Well done lad👍🏼
Thanks :)
This guy has to be Canadian.
He cuts in centimeters but the tray in in inches, he waters in ounces and his solids are in tea spoons 😂 what a beautiful country we live in.
I am from WA state. Close to Canada lol. Studied biology and chemistry in college. Academics regularly use metric, but I was taught the imperial system of measurement in high school so my brain is all sorts of twisted up 😂
@@AquariumPlantLab
Life is so hard 🤣🤣
Can’t wait to try this!!
We recently started growing aquarium plants, and this video helps us a lot. If you give them 24hrs LED light, would they even grow faster? or no difference from 12hrs?
Love the video! Do you ever have difficulty converting the moss to an aquarium? E.g do you have a heap of die off?
Thanks. Fantastic method.
Now that’s a video
😃 🌱 🎥
Nice to see an American using the metric system, I'm hoping I won't have to google inch to cm anymore in 10 years
Love this video I been looking for this maxi Grow but I'm in the UK is there anything I could use
Definitely liked and subscribed! Great info there! Have you ever tried this method for carpeting plants like hc, glosso, monte carlo?
Are you going to try propagate more variety of plants?
Like multi var of buce, crypts?
Or even, another var of your current plants like...
- java fern windelov/trident
- anubias pinto/petite/Coffeefolia/Marble
- more variety of moss etc
Absolutely, my goal is to offer a large catalog of different plants species. I’ve expanded from 2 to 10 over the last year or so. I’ve got another 6 or so species already in production but it will be awhile before those become available. Long term I would like to have 20-40 different species with some on rotation. 👍
You can view my current selection here aquariumplantlab.com
@@AquariumPlantLab great! Most if not all are sold out tho hahaha
If you willing to hear a 2 cents from me, you might want to add a pic of the plants (leaves) shape in emersed vs submerged condition for greenhorn scapper buyer.
If you’re talking about my catalog, I am not actually sold out, I am just leaving for vacation so I reduced my inventory to zero. When I get back from vacation I’ll be restocking the website 👍.
And good suggestion, others have brought that up recently. I am in the process of gathering submersed plant example photos now 😊. I think that will be helpful for people ☺️.
Great job!
Thank you
😃
Trying to buy moss but you site is down. Need a price for 3 full trays.
@@aaronk4310 site is back up 🌱 but I am not stocking moss at the moment unfortunately. Been running into stocking issues with it
@@AquariumPlantLab I understand I guess I will have to attempt to propagate it using your method if it works I'll make a video with a link to your plant page. I do a lot of aquascaping and plan to work with MD tanks and George farmer so in the future I'm going to be getting alot of plants from you.
Great stuff! Do you think this would work for liverworts like Riccardia?
Wow amazing
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That looks awesome! What fertilizer do you use?
how much does one of those trays weight after 30 days?
Do we have the drain the water that builds uo under the tray at all?
Stunning, question here:
Do you think it can work with direct solar light instead led lighting?
same question
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! How does the moss go when it gets submerged? Do you get any die off?
Some melt can occur, but if you have an appropriate setup for growing plants this shouldn't be extreme by any means. 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab Sarah hit on my concern. This is a great way to get fast growth on your Java Moss but once it is submerged it is going to die off and it will be like your starting over. This would be great for the area of a paludarium above the water line, but I’m just not sure about doing it for use underwater in an aquarium.
When transplanting aquarium plants there is always some melt regardless of whether it was grown above or below water simply due to changes in water parameters, lighting, temperature, etc. Melt should never be extreme and definitely not be like starting over. All of the individual strands of moss will quickly start producing new growth. The old growth will last for quite awhile and all the new growth will be well worth it. Almost all aquarium plants, moss included, are grown emersed at large farms. 👍
Great video! 😁 do you use maxigrow at full strength?
I go with 1/8th teaspoon per ~50 ounces water. I believe their instructions state full strength is 1-2 teaspoons per gallon. So I go with a pretty diluted mix. 👍
I need to this plastic box. Can you share link?
Have you, or do you plan on trying this with other types of aquarium moss? I giving weeping moss a try right now, using your methods. I suspect they're pretty much interchangeable, but who knows.
Did it work?
How does this compare to propagating it submerged?
Couldn't you put a strip of the stick-on door sill foam around the inside lip of the dome to help keep more humidity inside?
great vid thank you
What type of lightning setup do you have?
What type of light do you need to emit to create adequate lighting for Java moss to grow well?
Hi ,any alternative to the hydroponic fertilizer ? will aquarium water or any homemade stuff work just as well ?
I have the same question
Great informative content,
Just a thought if you used an 18/6 time it could maximise the nutrients growing cycle, 12/12 is really mimicking a winter sun cycle.
It would be interesting to try a the two different patterns to see if there was much difference.
Thank you! This is a tropical plant as are most of the species I grow, therefore, they are found near the equator. There is some deviation from 12/12 near the equator but not much. 18/6 would be true for species from regions north or south of the equator such as the temperate US. With that said I have done some experimenting with different photoperiods but that was awhile ago and I didn’t get much meaningful data. I may setup another experiment sometime in the near future. I just built another rack so I have more flexibility for such experiments. 🧪 🌱
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks for the reply mate, I’m from the Sunshine Coast of Australia we’re we are considered subtropical I believe and sit on the Tropic of Capricorn, here we have a deviation of winter 10.5 to summer 12.5 (round about figures). So the 12/12 makes complete sense!
Hello. I have a question. I want to cultivate moss. And I tried the way you did. (I couldn’t get the same products as yours in my country) and My moss turned brown…what is the possibly reasons for that?
Thank you for sharing your video😍 my bf and I love to see your videos!
Very cool growth for a month
😊 🪴
Do you think this method would work with Subwassertang?
Hi,may I ask ,what is that power and how to mix it.
i have a question - why are you growing the java moss off the water. i understand its because no algae, but rather my question is/might be -- can i grow java moss off the ground level of the black water holder? would i be able to just pour sand to mid level if i dont have a mesh tray and put the java moss on top
Edit: or rather: why would sand be a bad idea/ why is mesh tray your preferred method other than algae
Could a frosty fern be grown submerged or emerged? Never seen it done but it would make an interesting aquarium plant.
Probably not submerged, emersed possibly 🤔
So honest question, won’t these plants melt back badly when put full submersed in a tank? Not the Java moss so much but your stem plants and the rest of them?
Good question. Regardless of being grown out of water or underwater plants always have to adapt to a new environment. Almost all aquarium plants are grown at commercial farms out of water. I grow most of my plants this way too, but also in high humidity which helps them to adapt to submersed growth well. Melt should never be extreme (with a a few exceptions such as crypts or Val) The key is to make sure you have an appropriate setup for growing plants, if you do then most plants, stems included, make a pretty seamless transition to submersed growth with minimal melt. In fact I typically prefer emersed plants over submersed, especially if They are coming via mail. Emersed plants are typically much more robust, have less algae and pests, and more energy stores to be able to adapt to my tank 👍
Since you are using this fertilizer maxigro for aquatic plants for propagate. Is the plant doesn't affect the fish or would die or wash the plants first?
After the 1 month of growth, can that be cut up in eight 5x5 small Java Moss carpets?
Ever tried this method with aquaponic type sprinklers on the bottom? just curious
wait a better question i have is - why the mesh,in the mesh tray
Do you use the same hydrophonic fertilizer that yo for java fern and that you use for anubias,and what is its names?
Currently I use maxigro the most. Link is in the description 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks
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i have a question. my plan is to buy a whole bunch of mini glass containers, and fill them with tap water (they have a lid). i was going to order the moss, cut it up into little clumps, and throw a piece into each of the containers with water. would this work? can the moss be completely submerged? should i put pebbles in the containers, and then moss on top? does the moss sink? will the moss find a way to attach itself to stuff, if i dont superglue it? if i buy a grow light, how many hours a day do i leave it on? can it grow under blacklight? can it grow in a room with the window curtains closed? would appreciate any answers, thanks.
Does this method also work for Christmas Moss?
Is this method of propagation good for moss for terrariums?
Thank you!
I can't find java moss on your website and I want to buy some
Thanks for your interest, unfortunately Ive been running into stocking issues with Java Moss, so thats a species that is only available from time to time and typically sells out pretty quickly. So at the moment I am out of stock. 🌱
🤔Can we apply this method to other mos types?
How well does the moss do when transfered to being submerged in water
how do you harvest the moss? do you attach the moss to little squares of mesh? just in a plastic ziplock bag?
I have 30C in my house is that good for growing java moss ?
Does all in one aquarium fert usable for propagation?
Probably, hard to say if you’ll yield the same growth or not though. All ferts are different. Hydroponic ferts will be more economical and mixing ratios will be completely different.
does it work in minecraft 1.19.3?
How do you go about harvesting it? Do you just trim the top parts and leave the rest to grow back?
Just pull it off. It comes off easily. Keep some to replant a fresh batch. 🌱
Does that fertilizer negatively affect fish, nitrates, nitrites etc? Is it completely absorbed over the month or should you wash it or something?
Most large scale commercial aquarium plant farms grow plants hydroponically using similar fertilizers. If you’re concerned about it you could give the moss a quick rinse in clean water. Before I ship out moss I typically give mine a rinse under fresh water or a quick soak in fresh water. 👍
Regular tap water or distilled for the fertiliser mixture?
I’ve always used tap water 💧
Will you ever grow different kinds of moss? I'm interested in Christmas moss.
Likely but also not likely for awhile 😂. I am slowly diversifying my offerings. Have my eye on a number of species at the moment. Christmas moss seems to be in high demand though so that may be the next moss species 😎
Hi, I was wondering about how many tissue cups would a harvested tray fill, and how many tissue cups did it take to plant it? I really like this idea and I'm thinking about trying it, but I needed to "pitch" the idea to The Husband, if you get my meaning! lol
how long can you keep the fertilizer with water mixed? do you make them everyday?
I'm curious if you have experimented with mixing different types of moss together in the tray to create a desired look?
I was thinking about mixing some pilo moss and java moss together and see how it looks. Looking to create a Spanish moss looking kind of tree in the tank.
Great video
i tried doing this with miracle gro and mine didn't grow and they went yellow and died. I can't get maxigro in canada. is this a fertilizer problem?
Can drained water from potted plants be used as a fertilizer for this?
Should I cut up Christmas moss into tiny pieces like you did with Java moss to grow them?