I only use reverse osmosis water with added fern/moss fertilizer that has extra minerals. What am I doing wrong? Seems to be getting more brown by the day. Thanks
Do you live in a humid area and you got the moss from there? Maybe its not used to the humiditu in tje vivatium
ZafakD
Is it a temperate or a tropical species?
BuildingPutrid3745
what is the moss and fern fert you are using?
captainapplejuice
I’m pretty sure moss doesn’t need fertilizer since it doesn’t have roots. I have a similar variety of moss and I’ve kept it alive for a while just using rainwater sprayed every so often when it gets slightly dry, humidity should also stay quite high.
GrandmaRedCarolina
Do you have springtails and isopods in your Vivarium? Isopods love to munch on mosses from below and above, and the moss may turn brown like that. But it could be fertilizer burn. Or not enough misting of plain water on top and/or soil moisture underneath the moss.
GrandmaRedCarolina
Give it time. If it is getting worse, something I talked about in my previous comment could be the problem. If it gets better, then it was just the moss trying to adjust to a new environment. And in my previous comment add bleaching effect from too strong or too long amount of light shining on them or from chlorine in the water misted onto them.
Abunniesterrarium
Not enough moisture
PersonalPattern1029
If the lighting is intense, the moss at the top will turn brown
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Do you live in a humid area and you got the moss from there? Maybe its not used to the humiditu in tje vivatium
Is it a temperate or a tropical species?
what is the moss and fern fert you are using?
I’m pretty sure moss doesn’t need fertilizer since it doesn’t have roots. I have a similar variety of moss and I’ve kept it alive for a while just using rainwater sprayed every so often when it gets slightly dry, humidity should also stay quite high.
Do you have springtails and isopods in your Vivarium? Isopods love to munch on mosses from below and above, and the moss may turn brown like that. But it could be fertilizer burn. Or not enough misting of plain water on top and/or soil moisture underneath the moss.
Give it time. If it is getting worse, something I talked about in my previous comment could be the problem. If it gets better, then it was just the moss trying to adjust to a new environment. And in my previous comment add bleaching effect from too strong or too long amount of light shining on them or from chlorine in the water misted onto them.
Not enough moisture
If the lighting is intense, the moss at the top will turn brown