Is this Christmas or Taiwan moss?

[rain-]

I managed to forget which moss is which. This is either Christmas or Taiwan moss, which is it? Thanks :)

Moss 1:
http://sademetsa.net/moss.jpg

Same goes with this one, either Christmas or Taiwan. This is narrower and longer and has grown those spore thingies.

Moss 2:
http://sademetsa.net/moss2.jpg

[Robert]

Hi Satu,
I would say both look like a Versicularia species on these pictures. But if I have to decide what is what, then I say the first is Taiwan and the second picture is Christmas moss.

best regards
Robert

PS I would like to see pictures of your other mosses. The conditions seem to be quit different from mine (can see it on the growth-pattern) and I would like to see how the mosses I sent you developed.

[rain-]

Thanks, I was thinking the same too, but after staring at them both for a while, they look the same :D

I'll take some pictures of the other mosses during this weekend. Pellia has been growing really nicely, the large moss is a slow, but steady grower, Süsswassertang is growing slowly, but in a good, tight form and Drepanocladus is even faster than Monosolenium and tries to take over my tanks :)

[dom]

Sometime it is hard to just verify through picture with our own eyes. Mosses will grow in different shape and color while inside the different water paramenter.

I am agreed with Robert and both species look like Vesicularia (with "r" or without "r"?). But Taiwan moss should be Taxiphyllum species. So i am suspecting both are Christmas moss.

[shaman]

Hi Satu,

I agree with Robert and Dom that both look like Vas sp moss. Taiwan doesnt look like that normally.

[simcb]

Yes I think robert is right. My guess is the same as his.

[QUOTE=Robert]Hi Satu,
I would say both look like a Versicularia species on these pictures. But if I have to decide what is what, then I say the first is Taiwan and the second picture is Christmas moss.

QUOTE]

[rain-]

Oh my, I'm in trouble :D I shouldn't have lost that paper where I wrote which stick has which moss. Luckily these can only be either Taiwan or Christmass since the other mosses are in other tanks. Would these pictures help?

Number 1 on the left, number 2 on the right:

http://sademetsa.net/mosses_together.jpg

http://sademetsa.net/mosses_together_2.jpg

[Robert]

Hi Satu,
now I really doubt that this is a Taxiphyllum species, so Taiwan moss. Taxiphyllum species are normally softer and have smaller, brighter colored leaves and stems in comparison to Versicularia species. It's hard to describe. Perhaps my picture of my Taiwan moss helps you:

http://people.freenet.de/r.gall/TaiwanMoos.jpg

BTW, your pictures are superb. Please take such pictures also of other moss species!

best regards
Robert

[rain-]

Ok, compared to that, these two really look similar to each other and different from your Taiwan moss. Looks like the third stick I accidentally forgot inside a closed bag for awhile with my weeping moss (they sort of died) was Taiwan moss and both of these are Christmass moss then. I was redecorating one tank and put those mosses aside to wait for to be moved to another tank... I'm a moss killer :/

Robert, thanks for the compliments. I hope I'll be able to get some nice pictures of the other beauties. They truly are my favourites, regular plants aren't that interesting anymore :D

[ice-cream]

Ok, compared to that, these two really look similar to each other and different from your Taiwan moss. Looks like the third stick I accidentally forgot inside a closed bag for awhile with my weeping moss (they sort of died) was Taiwan moss and both of these are Christmass moss then. I was redecorating one tank and put those mosses aside to wait for to be moved to another tank... I'm a moss killer :/

Robert, thanks for the compliments. I hope I'll be able to get some nice pictures of the other beauties. They truly are my favourites, regular plants aren't that interesting anymore :D
Both picture are christmas moss. Taiwan moss have thinner texture.