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Java Moss
Taxiphyllum barbieri
Family: Hypnaceae
📍 Southeast Asia
Java moss is an incredibly versatile moss that can be tied to driftwood, rocks, or left free-floating. It provides excellent cover for fry and shrimp and serves as a natural grazing surface. It tolerates a very wide range of conditions and requires no CO2 or specialised fertilisation.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- light
- Low to high (10–100 PAR)
- placement
- Foreground / midground; carpets, walls, or tied to hardscape
- substrate
- Not planted in substrate
- growth rate
- Moderate
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–8.0
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 1–20 dGH
- temperature
- 59–86°F (15–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
72°F — 79°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)