Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss

Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss “Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss”

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aquascaper.org | Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss “Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss” –  Amblystegium Serpens, or called creeping feather-moss is distributed on the entire northern hemisphere, but it’s also found in South America, Australia, and New Zealand. This plant likes the area with a lot of nutrients and pH basic. Besides, this plant is also commonly live in areas that are sufficiently dry to moist, shady to sunny, on soil along roads and in the garden, under the trees and bushes.
This plant also can we meet in the dead wood, bark, and stone. Sometimes, Amblystegium Serpens accompanies with other mosses like Brachythecium Rutabulum.
An emersed form of the constellation Amblystegium Serpens grow in dense lawnlike population consists of decumbent to ascending, irregular ramified moss plantlet, which leaves no more than a millimeter in length. As Leptodictyum riparium leaves, like those of the constellation, Serpens Amblystegium ellips and acuminate tip and the stem have reached into the middle of a leaf or a little above. The leaves are much smaller than l. Riparium, and cells of wider leaves (three to five rather than six to twenty times longer than wide)
Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss

Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss “Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss”

Amblystegium Serpens though not grown in water in nature, it can be cultivated submerged in a tank, where it formed a smooth, upright shoots. This growth habit gave it vernacular name “nano moss” in the Aquarium hobby.
Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss

Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss “Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss”

Amblystegium Serpens also called Nano Moss is not a hardy plant, but it can survive in the tank with low CO2 and Low Lighting. But, this plant will grow healthy and strong with CO2 injection, highlighting and regularly fertilizing. Nano Moss can live emersed and this plant will grow faster in emersed than putting it in an aquarium. For propagating Amblystegium Serpens just dividing it into each section and then attached it into rocks or driftwood like cultivating other mosses. For fixing it to planting form you can use fishing line, thread or glue
Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss

Easy Grow Aquarium Plants Moss “Amblystegium Serpens or Nano Moss”

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Plant Profile

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Division: Bryophyta
  • Class: Bryopsida
  • Subclass: Bryidae
  • Order: Hypnales
  • Family: Amblystegiaceae
  • Origin: Northern Hampshire, South America, Australia, New Zealand
  • Plant Type: Moss
  • Genus: Amblystegium
  • Scientific Name: Amblystegium Serpens (Hedw.) Schimp
  • Common Name: Creeping Feather-Moss, Nano Moss
  • Placement: Foreground
  • Tank Suitability: Yes
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Growth Speed: Slow
  • Temperature: 4 – 26 Degree Celcius
  • Lighting Demands: Low to High
  • Height: 3 – 10 Cm
  • Can Live in Emersed: Yes
  • Suitable for Beginner: Yes

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