I think of it like that plastic grass you got in your Easter basket as a kid. Great plant! I got a small portion at my LFS, many months ago, it’s now carpeting a 20g long I use to grow out angle fry. Lots of critters in there for them to feast on in between feedings.
@@thesmallscape I'm pretty sure "Sub" is how it's being spelled universally in English, too -- that's interesting! A mystery b. I love how things get converted between languages! Apparently some Germans hate the 'B' too, lol -- my teacher in high school thought it was a plot by book publishers to make money from new editions...
Thank you so much for this video. I've been heard the name of this plant and I've been wondering about it. And you covered all the questions that I had about subwassertang. I think that's how you say it. LOL 😆.
I love the three questions... And everybody needs some... it is an awesome awesome plant that I lucked up and got a bunch for free when I bought an aquarium off of Facebook 💪🌿💚 Thank goodness I saved me some through the move!! A great easy plant that adds beautiful texture and color!!! I say it the first way.. and Alex from the secret history living in your aquarium taught me how to say it the German Way 🤣🤣 I'm so Southern the first way is the way I go with 🤣🤣🌿💚 You mean we went to high school together 150 years ago 🤣🤣 That's interesting that it's referred to as a fern, I had kind of put it in the Moss category too until somebody told me to think about it as a freshwater seaweed 🤔😁 thanks for breaking down the German meaning really cool fun fact!! Great plant and I agree with your five reasons why!! Much love my friend and I sure have missed you guys.. I hope you all have a blessed day!!🌿💚🌿🐟💚🙏
Hi Mary Paige! Good to hear from you, always thinking of you and hoping you are doing well. Lol! We MUST have gone to high school together then! Moss you too! Many blessings to you!!! 💜💜💜
love this plant, got a small piece about an inch or so with some moss that i bought now 8 months later it's the size of a baseball. slit ituup now it's in 3 tanks nice hitch hiker.
I Inherited some of this and it has done very well in my dark water Betta tank. Had no idea what it was for a long time! Thanks for making this vid! Awesome content as always.
I just got subwassertang (amoung mini water lettuce, 4 plecos, water hyacinth, and a yellow pond plant ive never seen) at a mini auction! So exited to try. It will go in the quarantine tank for now cause nothing is in it with no heater and every other tank has a heater. Thanks!
MUST get this plant, if just for the name. I can't stop saying it. Too fun like orangutan or pfeffernusse! Thanks Joanna, my husband already looks at me side eyed. Now I am walking around saying subwassertang! LOL
Something I’ll be looking out for now. I’ve never seen or heard of this plant before, but looks totally different from every other plant, I just have to give it a try. Very cool 👌
Good morning sweetheart. I just started (2) 5 1/2 gallon tanks. Saved a baby female and male betas from petco. They have killed the netrite snails 😢 what can I use for clean up crew?? Dirted, heavy planted, tiny hygger filter in each
Thats funny she mentioned it doing well where java moss does not, because my java moss is absolutely exploding but my suswassertang will not do anything. It melts back slightly for me but not completely
I have subwassertang filling up my planted tank as I’ve seen in many tanks at Ocean Aquarium in San Francisco. My betta and corys love to play and hide in it.
I have a good bit of it, but no idea how I got it. I'm wanting to transplant into other tanks. But I use aquarium salt in them. Does this hold up too goes and aquarium salt in low doses?
This plant is like a anubias. It simply doesn't give a fudge about water parameters and lights. I'd almost go as far to say that is even more hardy than the anubias in some instances. funny when you think of it as it's so fragile.
Omg NO! It's Süßwassertang, süß not sub! The first s in Germany is equivalent to a z, the ß in German is equivalent to a double ss and ü is equivalent to ue, kinda like when you say Zeus. So basically we pronounce it like "Zeuswassertang" (süß/suess meaning sweet)
I read on aquarium breeder "because there was only one known introduction by Kasselman into the aquatic trade, it can be reasonably assumed that all of the plants currently being sold are exact clones of each other and have reproduced entirely by continuous meristematic growth." Which would suggest all of our subwass in everyone's tank is nearly genetically identical.
I have some sort of hitchhiker snails that are devouring my plants. 😭 They're not the MTS, not sure what they are? But I've been feeding them to my cichlids and plecos. Thank you for all your videos 😀
I first saw subwassertang on Mark's Shrimp tanks. He's done about everything with it. For me when I ordered off ebay it did nothing for six months. When it finally took off it is taking over one of my shrimp tanks. It is all over the wood and several rocks. It grows mostly in mounds. I love it. My water (well) is low TDS (30-40), very little hardness, and 6.4 to 6.8 ph.
I’ve been meaning to get some subwassertang because my Java Moss gets everywhere and I’m not really into cleaning the all little pieces. Thank you for the video 🙂
Lol I’m half German too! My last name is even Tiemann (which is VERY German, and the reason it’s super German is because when Germans come to America I they “usually” drop the second n) we’re like half German Aquascaping twins! 😂
Mine grows like crazy! I have it in three tanks. My pH is 7.6. TDS is around 180 PPM for two tanks and around 230 PPM in one tank. Tanks run between 77-80 F. I have one neo grow out tank totally covered in it with chain sword just poking out randomly. I do 10% water change per week and dose 15 mL Seachem Flourish Nitrogen and .85 mL Flourish. The tank it grows best in has a HOB filter and a sponge filter. I also have about 3 inches of substrate. That tank runs cooler too and has a 230 TDS. I think it likes high oxygenated water. I don't really feed that tank either just 10-20 hikari pellets a day.
Thank you, Audra! It is a fun tank to watch - the little Merah’s and rice fish I absolutely LOVE together. There’s actually 2 more merah’s in a 55 downstairs that I want to add but just can’t catch. 🤣
Hi Joanne, I'm so glad that I found your new channel. My pedantic self can't help but correct your German though. The first s should have been pronounced like a z, so Zuesswassertang. I'm glad that you mentioned that it is now known as a fern. It is, in fact the gametophyte of a Lomariopsis fern. So far efforts to make it form the sporophyte form of the fern (The stage of life that we are all most familiar with) have failed. I have heard many people say that to grows best in an unlit tank just using the light form other tanks around it. Cheers, and good luck with your channel, Chris
I thoroughly enjoy your videos! I really liked this one because I have been wanting to know more about this plant and I am so eager to get my hands on some!
I had my for about 4 or 5 months, and it's double in size now.. but the 1st time I saw one was at my LFS, and the owner tried selling it to me, but I was taken back at the time thinking it looked like a fake plant later on I purchased one😅😂😅
Hey! I'm half German too. One more reason we're gonna be best friends 😆 I am bad at plants, but I'll give this one a try just to see and let you know how it does.
Love this plant. A blonde is asked to give her take on a football game, well they flipped a quarter and then spent the whole game fighting over it? Well they kept yelling get the quarterback!
I was lucky enough to have a small piece piggyback on a different freshwater plant order. It has grown to the point where its in 3 of my tanks. Unique look for your aquarium and very easy to grow. I never knew what it was called. Thank you!
i am growing it on piece of lignite its doing very well in tank with hard tap water, in my soft black water tank it was struggling a bit, dont knoa why, maybe water conditions
I'm normally listening on Bluetooth headphones and only look at the screen a couple of times so I might be super late but did you guys get a new camera recently? Everything looks crystal clear! Actually took me by surprise a bit actually having the free time to watch and listen at the same time haha. Don't know if it was light/camera/ just a good day but you look extra beautiful in this video as well, glowing. But anyway I don't think I'm a convert on this plant quite yet.
Love this plant! Had a small mound in my dirted nano and split it up a few weeks ago and added it to two other tanks. Definitely takes awhile to take off but worth the wait👍🏻
I wonder if people call it Subwassertang with the B vs the appropriate 'ss' making it sound like Zues, vs sub, because the ß looks like a B and many non German speakers think that's what it is??
Above neutral PH and pretty hard water. Tied it to a rock. It didn't die but did not thrive either...and the shrimp just blew right by it. lol. Just my experience.
I love my subswassertang. I used the plastic net bag avocados come in, cut to size and wrapped around a lava rock. Created a great mound. I also tried one of those moss cages, it took a long time to take off and the leaves come out in a very regular pattern. It also the green on a bonsai driftwood. Little baby plants float away to find homes all over my tanks. It grows slowly enough that isn’t a messy problem like it can be with Java moss.
This plant is awesome if it ever comes to Taiwan I'll let you know but it's really cool looking and I'd love to have some stuff in the back of my driftwood
I love Susswasertang! I use cotton sewing thread to fasten it to wood or rock. The cotton thread eventually rots away. You can use thread to create a wall Of Susswasertang at the back of your tank, say off a spray bar. Shrimp love it as you mentioned!
It’s German! susswassertang. The “B” is not a B, it’s a ß or an eszett, sounds like a hard double SS. Also betta is “bet-tuh”. Beta is “bay-da” like the greek letter. ❤️😍
Hello Joanna!😀 I’m revisiting this video for 2 reasons, 1st I now have subwassertang in like 3 of my aquariums, out of 25 I have and I just 2 weeks ago started my first neocaradina blue dream shrimp tank⭐️ thank you so much for the fantastic inspiration you share🎉
Thanks so much for the info, Joanna! I just received my order of this today from Flip Aquatics, which I’m going to put into my 15 gallon Fluval Flex tonight. I’ve got a whole bunch of Amano and other shrimp in there, so I suspect they’ll be quite happy with this stuff! ❤
I still haven't gotten my hands on any, in 2 years of looking here and there! I really need to look around now and see if I can get some... Really does look neat in your tanks! 🥰
I love this stuff. It's absolutely fantastic for breeding scatter spawning fish. I use it for my CPDs in a 5 gallon that is wall to wall subwassertang. Stick a group of 6-7 conditioned mature fish in there for 7 days with plenty live food, and let them do their thing, then I remove them........and a few days later I have lots of lovely wee CPD fry emerging from the 'tang. I think this plants structure really lends itself to protecting eggs and fry, while also being loose enough for the spawning fish to freely move through with each other, Marvin Gay style. Great stuff. Thanks for another enjoyable video, Joanna.
It's amazing. Perfect for shrimp, thrives even with relative neglect, survives in every light level, grows in great bushy clumps. I've gotten some decent money from selling excess growth to my LFS, might set up some bins to grow even more.
Wow, wish I washed this in my queue earlier! I've been thinking about Susswassertang for awhile but didn't know much about it. Now I REALLY want to get some for my shrimps! I like moss but find it hard to work with outside of just kind of throwing it somewhere in a clump. I think this plant will look and grow better on wood, for me at least. I have a stump-based square tank that might be perfect for wedging! The moss I tried just kind floats away eventually.
@@thesmallscape , Ooh indeed! I have been wanting to do an 11 gallon fish bowl scape. I think this plant my be a great highlight for the orb distortion you get in fish bowls.
Also, haploid form of they think the genus Lomatia. You need the diploid form to classify it. It has spread itself all over the world kinda the antithesis of Monte Carlo and such. I like your aquascaping style even if you sometimes shop at Petsmart. The 3 bubbles/second ladeda folks are the ones I'm not down with. For me plants need to have a job - aesthetics, aufwuchs, nutrient export
Seeing this as a freshwater seaweed is much cooler then a moss. I never thought it looked much like a moss myself. However, the moss category is what I’ve always seen it sold under. I’ve had mine for six months at least and it’s spreading across my sand substrate very nicely. It was a golf ball size portion when I got it and now it’s larger then a softball ball. My parameters are the same that you said, except for the temperature is 80 degrees. Thanks for enlightening with new information on this plant I did not know.
I have this throughout my tanks, but on my main paludarium tank I have this growing on the artificial rock wall at the back. This wall only received water for 15 minutes every hour and 15 minutes. The plant has now adapted and changed to be much darker green and the texture is thicker. It is hard to explain. Now that it has become more terrestrial, it does not survive when placed back in water.
I've had some in the Patio Pond since May and it's doing great here in zone 5, some hot days; but mostly cool nights. It also loves my tanks, and you're correct, my Shrimps Love it, especially the teensie shrimplets. Great video of course!
Subwassertang is just about my favorite plant! My favorite way to use it is as a carpet. I tie it onto plastic craft mesh and weigh that down with a couple rocks, or just stick the ends of the plastic down into the substrate. I have way more success with subwassertang than java moss and it doesn't cling onto fish or fry as they wiggle through it.
Please Joanna. You are a college professor's wife of Germanic descent. You've taken a year of German, yet you're fine with dumbing it down to sub. Have you ever played fussball in a bar?Many years ago when I thought I would be an ichthologist, I loved my copy of Prof. Gunther Sterba's Susswasserfische die allles Welte Viking Press all of $15. Anyway what I'm trying to say at 4 am is I so admire Jason 's explications,please don't dumb down other stuff and settle for mediocrity basis becoming too common in the USA.
I think of it like that plastic grass you got in your Easter basket as a kid. Great plant! I got a small portion at my LFS, many months ago, it’s now carpeting a 20g long I use to grow out angle fry.
Lots of critters in there for them to feast on in between feedings.
Wait, is the 'b' really a scharfes 's'? So really it should be spelled Susswassertang in English? And now I get to use the word 'transliteration'!
Yeah the “b” is really ß
@@miloflaze And the ü is really a 'ue'
Yes. You are super correct. Just tried to get it close enough. ☺️
Lol! Oh yes - this plant causes lots of fun!
@@thesmallscape I'm pretty sure "Sub" is how it's being spelled universally in English, too -- that's interesting! A mystery b. I love how things get converted between languages!
Apparently some Germans hate the 'B' too, lol -- my teacher in high school thought it was a plot by book publishers to make money from new editions...
Thank you for the info. I somehow ordered some of this stuff one late night while on Etsy. It showed up today and I had no idea what to do with it. 😄
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Thank you so much for this video. I've been heard the name of this plant and I've been wondering about it. And you covered all the questions that I had about subwassertang. I think that's how you say it. LOL 😆.
Great to hear - and different folks definitely have their opinion on the pronunciation! 🙂
I love the three questions... And everybody needs some...
it is an awesome awesome plant that I lucked up and got a bunch for free when I bought an aquarium off of Facebook 💪🌿💚
Thank goodness I saved me some through the move!!
A great easy plant that adds beautiful texture and color!!! I say it the first way.. and Alex from the secret history living in your aquarium taught me how to say it the German Way 🤣🤣 I'm so Southern the first way is the way I go with 🤣🤣🌿💚
You mean we went to high school together 150 years ago 🤣🤣
That's interesting that it's referred to as a fern, I had kind of put it in the Moss category too until somebody told me to think about it as a freshwater seaweed 🤔😁 thanks for breaking down the German meaning really cool fun fact!!
Great plant and I agree with your five reasons why!!
Much love my friend and I sure have missed you guys.. I hope you all have a blessed day!!🌿💚🌿🐟💚🙏
Hi Mary Paige! Good to hear from you, always thinking of you and hoping you are doing well. Lol! We MUST have gone to high school together then! Moss you too! Many blessings to you!!! 💜💜💜
You can use it with sushi’s as well!! It’s really good
the tank setups behind you are gorgeous!
wow
Thank you so much! ☺️
love this plant, got a small piece about an inch or so with some moss that i bought now 8 months later it's the size of a baseball. slit ituup now it's in 3 tanks nice hitch hiker.
I ordered some last fall from LR Bretz. Very slow grower but has finally gotten so that I could split it to another tank. Love the stuff😊
I Inherited some of this and it has done very well in my dark water Betta tank. Had no idea what it was for a long time! Thanks for making this vid! Awesome content as always.
I just got subwassertang (amoung mini water lettuce, 4 plecos, water hyacinth, and a yellow pond plant ive never seen) at a mini auction! So exited to try. It will go in the quarantine tank for now cause nothing is in it with no heater and every other tank has a heater. Thanks!
MUST get this plant, if just for the name. I can't stop saying it. Too fun like orangutan or pfeffernusse! Thanks Joanna, my husband already looks at me side eyed. Now I am walking around saying subwassertang! LOL
Hahaha!!! I love it - and yes!!! It’s soooo fun to say!! 🤣🤣🤣
Love this plant! It's doing excellent in 1 of my 20 longs! Very cool looking plant! I just thru in and it attached itself and just grows in clumps
Something I’ll be looking out for now. I’ve never seen or heard of this plant before, but looks totally different from every other plant, I just have to give it a try. Very cool 👌
Oh yes, Mark! I think you’d like it. It is quite unique and very cool 😎
Hey was there a camera upgrade since the past 3-4 videos?? Quality is.. Up Up Up...
Good morning sweetheart. I just started (2) 5 1/2 gallon tanks. Saved a baby female and male betas from petco. They have killed the netrite snails 😢 what can I use for clean up crew?? Dirted, heavy planted, tiny hygger filter in each
New subb!! Thank you for your concise and helpful info👍🏼👍🏼❤❤ im subbed to prime time Aquatics I didn't know you had your own...awesome 👌
Thats funny she mentioned it doing well where java moss does not, because my java moss is absolutely exploding but my suswassertang will not do anything. It melts back slightly for me but not completely
I have subwassertang filling up my planted tank as I’ve seen in many tanks at Ocean Aquarium in San Francisco. My betta and corys love to play and hide in it.
I bet they do. Once it takes off, it takes off. ☺️
@@thesmallscape I had to separate the java and Christmas moss from the subwassertang "cloud" so they could play in it.
I have a good bit of it, but no idea how I got it. I'm wanting to transplant into other tanks. But I use aquarium salt in them. Does this hold up too goes and aquarium salt in low doses?
This plant is like a anubias. It simply doesn't give a fudge about water parameters and lights. I'd almost go as far to say that is even more hardy than the anubias in some instances. funny when you think of it as it's so fragile.
reminds me of Shredduce aka shredded lettuce
Funny, just ordered this last night
Yahooooo!!!! 🌱🌱🌱
I accidentally got this in my plant order. I have really hard water and the water is like 79-80. Its growing. 🤔 I use co2.
Easter Basket Grass
Yes!! Exactly!!! 😂
It looks like seaweed! I have super hard water so it may not be happy in my tanks.
Looks like mini kelp.
Yesss!! It does!
Omg NO! It's Süßwassertang, süß not sub! The first s in Germany is equivalent to a z, the ß in German is equivalent to a double ss and ü is equivalent to ue, kinda like when you say Zeus. So basically we pronounce it like "Zeuswassertang" (süß/suess meaning sweet)
Süßwassertang
I never took German classes at all but it still amazes me how few people know how to pronounce these letters
I agree and I’m no pro so I’m sure I butchered it too. 🙂
It looks like when you order a salad and they bring you the 'fancy" lettuce. I dig it though, it looks like sea weed or kelp. Very cool.
I read on aquarium breeder "because there was only one known introduction by Kasselman into the aquatic trade, it can be reasonably assumed that all of the plants currently being sold are exact clones of each other and have reproduced entirely by continuous meristematic growth." Which would suggest all of our subwass in everyone's tank is nearly genetically identical.
I have some sort of hitchhiker snails that are devouring my plants. 😭 They're not the MTS, not sure what they are? But I've been feeding them to my cichlids and plecos. Thank you for all your videos 😀
Bummer for hitchhiker anything’s. 😑
I first saw subwassertang on Mark's Shrimp tanks. He's done about everything with it. For me when I ordered off ebay it did nothing for six months. When it finally took off it is taking over one of my shrimp tanks. It is all over the wood and several rocks. It grows mostly in mounds. I love it. My water (well) is low TDS (30-40), very little hardness, and 6.4 to 6.8 ph.
Wow! It took that long huh? So excited - I want mounds to form too! Your parameters serve you well for this plant!
Same! 6 months did nothing, and then I found a big clump on a filter spung, and it keeps growing
I’ve been meaning to get some subwassertang because my Java Moss gets everywhere and I’m not really into cleaning the all little pieces. Thank you for the video 🙂
Oh great - this one is way more tidy!
Lol I’m half German too! My last name is even Tiemann (which is VERY German, and the reason it’s super German is because when Germans come to America I they “usually” drop the second n) we’re like half German Aquascaping twins! 😂
Lol ya!
In pictures it looks like shredded romaine. Never see it in person
Oh my gosh!! You are right!!! Lol. 🥗
Mine grows like crazy! I have it in three tanks. My pH is 7.6. TDS is around 180 PPM for two tanks and around 230 PPM in one tank. Tanks run between 77-80 F.
I have one neo grow out tank totally covered in it with chain sword just poking out randomly. I do 10% water change per week and dose 15 mL Seachem Flourish Nitrogen and .85 mL Flourish.
The tank it grows best in has a HOB filter and a sponge filter. I also have about 3 inches of substrate. That tank runs cooler too and has a 230 TDS. I think it likes high oxygenated water. I don't really feed that tank either just 10-20 hikari pellets a day.
Thank you, Joanna 😊 The tank in your video is aaaamazing!! Those little plarinum fish zipping by was fun to watch!
Thank you, Audra! It is a fun tank to watch - the little Merah’s and rice fish I absolutely LOVE together. There’s actually 2 more merah’s in a 55 downstairs that I want to add but just can’t catch. 🤣
Hi Joanne, I'm so glad that I found your new channel. My pedantic self can't help but correct your German though. The first s should have been pronounced like a z, so Zuesswassertang. I'm glad that you mentioned that it is now known as a fern. It is, in fact the gametophyte of a Lomariopsis fern. So far efforts to make it form the sporophyte form of the fern (The stage of life that we are all most familiar with) have failed. I have heard many people say that to grows best in an unlit tank just using the light form other tanks around it.
Cheers, and good luck with your channel,
Chris
Oh yes, I do not have the accent down, nor would I attempt to completely nail the pronunciation - Sandra Bullock could though! ☺️
I thoroughly enjoy your videos!
I really liked this one because I have been wanting to know more about this plant and I am so eager to get my hands on some!
☺️☺️ Yay! So glad you liked this one! I just love this plant now, really super excited you get some. Let me know if you do!
I love the look of this plant!
Nice video! Awesome plants! I just subscribed! We make similar content!
I had my for about 4 or 5 months, and it's double in size now.. but the 1st time I saw one was at my LFS, and the owner tried selling it to me, but I was taken back at the time thinking it looked like a fake plant later on I purchased one😅😂😅
I haven’t tried this plant yet. Soon maybe.
Go for it! But then again I’m pretty much a plant pusher. ☺️
For the algorithm!
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2nd comment. You described subwassertang perfectly. Water parameters and everything. Nice information. Thanks.😉
Terry - that is so sweet. Thank you! ☺️☺️
Hey! I'm half German too. One more reason we're gonna be best friends 😆
I am bad at plants, but I'll give this one a try just to see and let you know how it does.
The letter “b” is nowhere to be found in the name. We may be in America but it does not change the name. Susswassertang is correct. See, no b or B.
Love this plant. A blonde is asked to give her take on a football game, well they flipped a quarter and then spent the whole game fighting over it? Well they kept yelling get the quarterback!
🤭🤷🏻♀️😱
I was lucky enough to have a small piece piggyback on a different freshwater plant order. It has grown to the point where its in 3 of my tanks. Unique look for your aquarium and very easy to grow. I never knew what it was called. Thank you!
Nice! What a great little piggybacker! 🌱
i am growing it on piece of lignite its doing very well in tank with hard tap water, in my soft black water tank it was struggling a bit, dont knoa why, maybe water conditions
Love the video 🤩
Love the channel
🤜🤛 Blessings to you and your family 🙏 keep up the great info.
Float it? What are you talking about? It sinks. Slowly, but it sinks, not floats.
I bought it by chance at Petsmart, it was labeled “moss”…just moss. 😂😂😂 Can handle med-high light & slightly harder water, is also slow growing.
It reminds me of Easter grass. 🤣
Oh YAAAASSSS! That’s it. Exactly!👏👏
Thanks for the info! I love it but I keep killing it! 🙁🙁🙁. It just keeps falling apart and single strands just float around.
That’s so sad. I hate when that happens to a plant. 🤭
One if my friends has a strain on this plant that can tolerate extremely hard water.
Axolotl and bichir are also words that hurt my soul hearing.
Have not tried it yet, might try.
🌱☺️🌱
I'm normally listening on Bluetooth headphones and only look at the screen a couple of times so I might be super late but did you guys get a new camera recently? Everything looks crystal clear! Actually took me by surprise a bit actually having the free time to watch and listen at the same time haha. Don't know if it was light/camera/ just a good day but you look extra beautiful in this video as well, glowing. But anyway I don't think I'm a convert on this plant quite yet.
Love this plant! Had a small mound in my dirted nano and split it up a few weeks ago and added it to two other tanks. Definitely takes awhile to take off but worth the wait👍🏻
I wonder if people call it Subwassertang with the B vs the appropriate 'ss' making it sound like Zues, vs sub, because the ß looks like a B and many non German speakers think that's what it is??
Probably. 😎
Above neutral PH and pretty hard water. Tied it to a rock. It didn't die but did not thrive either...and the shrimp just blew right by it. lol. Just my experience.
Boy, you just never know, huh? ☺️
I glue 30+ peices onto lava rock it looks SO cool
I love my subswassertang. I used the plastic net bag avocados come in, cut to size and wrapped around a lava rock. Created a great mound. I also tried one of those moss cages, it took a long time to take off and the leaves come out in a very regular pattern. It also the green on a bonsai driftwood. Little baby plants float away to find homes all over my tanks. It grows slowly enough that isn’t a messy problem like it can be with Java moss.
This plant is awesome if it ever comes to Taiwan I'll let you know but it's really cool looking and I'd love to have some stuff in the back of my driftwood
It is super fun, for sure 🌱☺️🌿
My water is so hard, it’s like liquid rock. I’m thinking that might be why I can’t find it locally.
Like liquid rock?! 🤣🤣 Now that’s some hard water!
I love Susswasertang! I use cotton sewing thread to fasten it to wood or rock. The cotton thread eventually rots away. You can use thread to create a wall Of Susswasertang at the back of your tank, say off a spray bar. Shrimp love it as you mentioned!
Also I think the female ate the amano shrimp
i wonder if you dry is plant would it taste good
the best plant. my endlers are visibly happy after putting some in my tank!
Oh I bet they are! So cute ☺️
You are looking good for 150+
It’s German! susswassertang. The “B” is not a B, it’s a ß or an eszett, sounds like a hard double SS. Also betta is “bet-tuh”. Beta is “bay-da” like the greek letter. ❤️😍
Yup you got it. ☺️
Can you glue it?
Looks like Easter basket grass.😂
It is a different looking plant. I like it on that piece of driftwood.
It certainly is different looking. ☺️
See you at Aquashella next Saturday! Super excited to meet you both.
Woohoo!! Yay!!
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Hello Joanna!😀 I’m revisiting this video for 2 reasons, 1st I now have subwassertang in like 3 of my aquariums, out of 25 I have and I just 2 weeks ago started my first neocaradina blue dream shrimp tank⭐️ thank you so much for the fantastic inspiration you share🎉
Thanks so much for the info, Joanna! I just received my order of this today from Flip Aquatics, which I’m going to put into my 15 gallon Fluval Flex tonight. I’ve got a whole bunch of Amano and other shrimp in there, so I suspect they’ll be quite happy with this stuff! ❤
It’s a seaweed.
Love 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘 I got some and it rocks!!!!
Woohoo!!! Love your excitement! 🔥 🎸 😃
I still haven't gotten my hands on any, in 2 years of looking here and there! I really need to look around now and see if I can get some... Really does look neat in your tanks! 🥰
Thank you! Flip Aquatics usually has it. ☺️☺️ Good luck in your search!
I love this stuff. It's absolutely fantastic for breeding scatter spawning fish. I use it for my CPDs in a 5 gallon that is wall to wall subwassertang. Stick a group of 6-7 conditioned mature fish in there for 7 days with plenty live food, and let them do their thing, then I remove them........and a few days later I have lots of lovely wee CPD fry emerging from the 'tang. I think this plants structure really lends itself to protecting eggs and fry, while also being loose enough for the spawning fish to freely move through with each other, Marvin Gay style. Great stuff. Thanks for another enjoyable video, Joanna.
It's amazing. Perfect for shrimp, thrives even with relative neglect, survives in every light level, grows in great bushy clumps. I've gotten some decent money from selling excess growth to my LFS, might set up some bins to grow even more.
Cool 😎
mine melted away for some reason
That’s a bummer. 😐
Say it the New Jersey way. Lol
Haha!! Yaaa!!! 🙌🙌🙌
Wow, wish I washed this in my queue earlier! I've been thinking about Susswassertang for awhile but didn't know much about it. Now I REALLY want to get some for my shrimps! I like moss but find it hard to work with outside of just kind of throwing it somewhere in a clump. I think this plant will look and grow better on wood, for me at least. I have a stump-based square tank that might be perfect for wedging! The moss I tried just kind floats away eventually.
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I have seen it but never tried it.. You have given me a few ideas!
Oooh - have I ? Yay!! 🌱🌱🌱
@@thesmallscape , Ooh indeed! I have been wanting to do an 11 gallon fish bowl scape. I think this plant my be a great highlight for the orb distortion you get in fish bowls.
Also, haploid form of they think the genus Lomatia. You need the diploid form to classify it. It has spread itself all over the world kinda the antithesis of Monte Carlo and such. I like your aquascaping style even if you sometimes shop at Petsmart. The 3 bubbles/second ladeda folks are the ones I'm not down with. For me plants need to have a job - aesthetics, aufwuchs, nutrient export
Seeing this as a freshwater seaweed is much cooler then a moss. I never thought it looked much like a moss myself. However, the moss category is what I’ve always seen it sold under. I’ve had mine for six months at least and it’s spreading across my sand substrate very nicely. It was a golf ball size portion when I got it and now it’s larger then a softball ball. My parameters are the same that you said, except for the temperature is 80 degrees. Thanks for enlightening with new information on this plant I did not know.
Oh nice yours is forming a carpet - sweet! Fun to see plants grow 🌱🙌🌱
I have this throughout my tanks, but on my main paludarium tank I have this growing on the artificial rock wall at the back. This wall only received water for 15 minutes every hour and 15 minutes. The plant has now adapted and changed to be much darker green and the texture is thicker. It is hard to explain. Now that it has become more terrestrial, it does not survive when placed back in water.
Ooooh - so fun! It certainly can adapt, can’t it?! ☺️
I thought it would be soft when I got it! Underwater it looks like soft jelly, but it's actually fairly crisp
You’re right, I’d expect it to be kinda squishy and sticky but not so much. ☺️
I've had some in the Patio Pond since May and it's doing great here in zone 5, some hot days; but mostly cool nights. It also loves my tanks, and you're correct, my Shrimps Love it, especially the teensie shrimplets. Great video of course!
Oh great to hear, thanks for the report! Love those little shrimpie shrimplets!
Love the look of it, kind of frilly. Besides shrimp, it would be great for fry too, I bet.
Yes! More surface area than moss for shrimp too! ☺️
Subwassertang is just about my favorite plant! My favorite way to use it is as a carpet. I tie it onto plastic craft mesh and weigh that down with a couple rocks, or just stick the ends of the plastic down into the substrate. I have way more success with subwassertang than java moss and it doesn't cling onto fish or fry as they wiggle through it.
Wow! What a neat way to use it! 👍👍
Please Joanna. You
Please Joanna. You are a college professor's wife of Germanic descent. You've taken a year of German, yet you're fine with dumbing it down to sub. Have you ever
played fussball in a bar?Many years ago when I thought I would be an ichthologist, I loved my copy of Prof. Gunther Sterba's Susswasserfische die allles Welte Viking Press all of $15. Anyway what I'm trying to say at 4 am is I so admire Jason 's explications,please don't dumb down other stuff and settle for mediocrity basis becoming too common in the USA.
I upset people whichever way I pronounce it.