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I finally managed to get some time to do this. Enjoy everyone!






You might be able to see some RCS in there. I just do not know how to eliminate the flash in my digital camera to take a close up shot with the RCS.

This is my 20 gallon long tank. I am very proud of what I have done to it. I would be "REALLY PROUD" if I could get these RCS (my last chance) to breed in this tank. As I have stated, it is heavily planted.
Any comments are welcome

Nice looking tank you have there.

I agree that it's very well planted, but I wouldn't call that heavily planted

I'll try to get some pics of my tanks up tonight.

Thanks for taking the time to post these, Kenshin, what a terrific tank! And a nice "adult" hobby too, from your other responsibilities. Plants are growing nicely and if my eyes aren't deceiving me, I do see at least one or two Red Cherry in each pic.

Hope those Cherries can breed for you. I have the opposite problem, my plants are thumbs down, but my Cherry is pregnant AGAIN and I'm going to be running out of room...

-GB

NICE TANK!

Oooh! Mossballs!

Looks nice!

As long as you have males and females in there, and they're healthy, you should get babies soon. I don't see any fish in there, so I assume it's a shrimp-only tank. The babies are very small and tend to hide, so maybe you just haven't seen them, but they're there.

Killfrenzy wrote:Oooh! Mossballs!

That is algae ball. Called Marimo in Japan. Not the mossball.

Cladophora aegagropila?

Gets called mossballs over here.

Marimo is a variety of algae found in some lakes of Japan, Iceland and Estonia. They consist of an aggregation of algae. The rolling action of gentle tides causes them to form into round green balls with a velvety appearance. The plant was named "marimo" by a Japanese botanist Tatsuhiko Kawakami in 1898. "Mari" is a bouncy play ball. "Mo" is a generic term for plants that grow in water. In Japan they are a protected species.

Check out their official web site.
http://www.marimarimarimo.com/main.htm

Btw, is the moss and algae are same family?

I just posted the scientific name, what possibly gave you the idea that I'd need more information that I already know?

Yes, Cladophora aegagropila IS an algae.

But look, what's this!
Moss ball... http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Plant,% ... 0Balls.htm
Moss ball again... http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/ ... ssballshop
More Moss ball... http://www.cornishcrispa.com/catalog/pr ... e8e04a1bcb
Moss ball! http://www.geocities.com/elgecko1989/mossball.html
Who'd've thought! MOSS BALL! http://homepage.mac.com/mactechg4/PhotoAlbum24.html
In fact, MORE MOSSBALL! http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/ne ... 1092079598

No, it's not the most technically accurate name around.
But that doesn't change the fact that it refers to the exact same thing, and that people still use the term and more likely than not will keep using the term "moss ball" anyways.

Thank you very much for the information. Perhaps different places had named it different name. But i do believe Japan is the first place which found this species.