Aquarium hobbyists-If you put moss from a tree in the fish tank-will it kill the fish?

Question

My husband took some moss off of a tree, and has put it in our fish tank. I'm worried that it's going to affect the water, and kill the fish. The last time he went to put this stuff in there, I told him to get it out, and let me look it up, and see if it's a good idea or bad idea, but I can't find any sites that comment on putting moss in a fish tank.

Answer 1

Actually it depends on the "moss" if it is Usnea Lichen commonally found in the Pacific Northwest, there is on going research into to its medicinal abilities, especially in relation to effectiveness agaist gram negative bacteria in aquariums (which most aquatic pathogen are gram negative).
In other words, I would not keep this in here consantly, but the effect may be no more worse than aquarists who constantly dump Melafix in thier aquarium.
Try and find out the exact identification of this moss and try posting it here:
http://groups.msn.com/EverythingAquatic/everythingaquatic.msnw

For an article that has some information about Usnea Lichen:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Medication.html

Answer 2

Moss from a tree, since it is not an aquatic type of moss, will most likely just rot in your tank over time and pollute the water, thus harming your fish. A safe alternative to this problem to buy a hearty clump of java moss. You can find it either at your local pet shop, and if they don't have it you can get it from www.BettaTalk.com. I got a clump from there and it arrived yesterday and not only does it look nice, but it's a hardy little plant and it will help keep the tank clean from ammonia, Nitrates, and Nitrites (but it still NOT a substitute for water changes! The plants can only do so much).

Here's a good rule to always remember, "When in doubt, don't!" If it's not 100% known to be ok in the aquarium, no matter what it is, don't put it in until you have confirmation from experts. The lives of your fish depend on every descision. So I hope this advice helps and good luck!

Answer 3

Moss For Fish Tank

Answer 4

90% of the time it will die, and rot in your tank. This will increase the amount of ammonia, and later nitrites, and nitrates. (Bacteria + ammonia -> Nitrites +bacteria -> nitrates) Nitrite and ammonia are highly toxic, but in a healthy tank get rapidly converted to nitrates. Nitrates are far less toxic, but just build up in your tank. (This is why everyone recommend removing ~20% of your water every week or so.) How bad things get depends on the quality of filter, if you over feed, how much ammonia->nitrate you hve already, and the size of tank. Of course it also possible the moss is toxic to the fish in the tank. or that it's great food for some of the fish in your tank.

BTW- If you guy want moss look for moss balls, or java moss at your LFS, or online.

Answer 5

Salt may well be utilized as a preventative degree not something extra, and it may well be observed that some fish at the instant are not tolerant of any degree of salt, as an occasion amazon varieties as there water is forever gentle acidic water, some have stated scaleless fish, it may well be observed that making use of salt or proprietary remedies which contain methylene blue or malachite eco-friendly is additionally detrimental to that form of fish because of the fact the die will disguise the exterior and kill the fish in extreme dosages, keep in mind the scene from goldfinger comparable tale. maximum a techniques east breeders use salt because of the fact they have outdoors vats and it stops the creepy crawlies from stepping into and ingesting the fry, its not a treatment, whether it may help as an help to open wounds and infections. whether, 9 situations out of 10 while human beings inform you to apply this the liver of the fish is forever broken. come across a proprietary therapy advance the temperature of the tank and do away with any charcoal filter out media. the drugs could be used for no less than 2 weeks as that is generally the cycle of white spot.

Answer 6

take it out The moss cannot live underwater and will rot and could kill the fish.

If he likes the look of moss, visit a pet store and buy some aquatic java moss.

Answer 7

Um, I have never done this before, so I don't know... I doubt it, but it might be acidic, but REALLY what is the point. It will probably die anyways. If you want moss looking stuff, buy "java moss" and underwater plant.

Answer 8

you shouldn't put it in there.
i've put something similar to it in my fish tank && all of a sudden the fish was getting weak && it died.
if i were you, i wouldn't put it in there.