Completed enclosures ( 24 hours old)

[flybyferns]

I have been experimenting with this. I have been watering my patch with the buttermilk mixture and its growing like crazy .

Though with this method, I think it would be best to get it started in another area and then move the patch to the vivarium, due to the acidity of the mixture.

Toss aside some moss spores and give it a try. My next goal is to spread it over fabric tulle and see if I can create a rug of moss .

Here is the 'secret' (not really ), ha ha...recipe:



THINGS YOU'LL NEED:

Moss
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 cup water
Blender
Paint brush
Spray bottle

DIRECTIONS:

STEP #1:
Peel a piece of existing moss the size of your hand off the ground. Brush as much dirt as possible off the back of the moss with your fingers, or rinse clean.

STEP #2:
Place the moss in a blender with 1 cup of buttermilk, 1/2 tsp. of white sugar, and 1 cup of water. Pulse the mixture until it resembles creamy soup.

STEP #3:
Pour the mixture evenly over the area where moss is desired. If growing moss on statuary or other hard surfaces with vertical faces use a clean paint brush to paint the mixture on. It will attach and grow best on a roughened surface.

STEP #4:
Spray the mixture daily with a spray bottle of water or a garden hose set to mist until a carpet of moss has established.

STEP #5:
Watch it grow .

Thanks Heath,
I remember seeing this recipe. I would have to grow it outside their tanks.
I wonder what will happen when moved; as it has to be grown it in a separate tank now.
I don't think my darts would like to wallow around on buttermilk !!!
I'll put some on pre-cut pieces of substrate screening - and see what happens.
I love science experiments.

I don't have any moss spores left. I have the left over growing in a little 5 gallon tank on top of ABG ( nothing yet -its only been about a week) I have some mound moss I could use for this? What do you think?

There is a pic her I posted of the moss spores growing. It is really cool to watch it come in. I purchased (3) .
I divided 2 of them in the dart enclosures about a month ago. And the 3rd I have in the five gallon.

Amazon.com: Kyoto Moss Spores: Patio, Lawn & Garden

Gotta - love it!