02-20-2012, 01:54 PM
Best Living moss to use ?
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02-20-2012, 03:29 PM
Brad,
Check out this subforum...there's 10-12 threads on moss in there. plants-bromeliads-aroids-moss-and-soil-f24/ There is really no store or product equivalent of a moss recommendation. Most temperate mosses and "locally harvested" moss, like from a yard ect, need a dormancy period of cool or cold weather and will die or at least, look horrible in a vivarium. Add to that, the high possibility of pathogens and insect hitchhikers that can cause problems further down the road. Most hobbyists use clean, dried magnolia leaves and smaller clean dried live oak leaves as ground cover as it's more natural to the dart frogs native environment and it helps to cultivate important microfauna that you can add to your viv. A lot of newer hobbyists think that a lush carpet of green moss is aesthetically pleasing, and I must admit, it does look nice, but to the frogs, it's actually nowhere near as helpful as ABG or equiv substrate and a couple nice layers of leaf litter. Some thoughts. Have you looked through a lot of the pics of vivs here on the photography subforum ? A lot of them have good pics of leaf litter and look fantastic in my opinion.
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02-20-2012, 04:24 PM
02-20-2012, 04:34 PM
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02-20-2012, 07:03 PM
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