Looking into buying a lot of this stuff for breeding purposes so the betta babies can hide from parents if need be and just in general for growout tanks and all of my betta tanks including the jarred ones. Is this a good idea i dont really know anything about aquarium plants just use the fake ones lol any help would be thanked

I've never used live plants so i cant help ya. You could use some coconut shells with some holes in them halved of course. I'm sure you could look on aquabid, ebay and find some stuff on there.Here is a link to a place i sometimes use. http://www.kensfish.com/breedingsupplieslinks.html

You could use one of these (click)

ok but i think i will just go with the java moss just wanted to run it by you guys and see if you guys thought it was a bad idea

You can make a java mass wall!

i did see an idea about that and will probably try it and have like a little grass patch on the bottom of the tanks

Mike your into planted tanks right.

I've had very mixed results with java moss. Either it grows like a weed and I need to cut it out of places or it goes brown near instantly.

I'm not sure what are good plants for fry to hide in though either. I'm guessing bushy but not delicate would work best.

Hrm. You remember what bulb you had Wyite, and what you switched it to? Maybe it's just as simple as the wrong type of light for some of the tanks making it not grow.

Oh I get a tripple word score for subsequently

The Light was most likely too strong. Java moss is a low light plant, your old bulb was probably the right amount of light that the moss needed and when you added the new light it gave off more light than the moss could process and subsequently died.[/quote]

That was my guess, but it didn't affect my java fern, nor did it improve growth in my anubias. I've kept a java fern in higher watt:gallon ratios before, but that was always when it was shaded by other plants. So I was thinkin' it may have been due to the placement of the moss.

Thanks, Mike.

WYite