Boxing Day Plant ID?

[dan2x38]

Hate buying unknown plants but Being Boxing Day with discounts worth the risk. I bought 2 of the plants shown below anyone know what they are?

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[kennyman]

Well until some of the Moss guys show up,   . . . . .  Looks a bit like the Christmas moss I have seen posted around here a few times.

I found a cool site that might help

http://www.aquamoss.net/



good luck dan 

[dan2x38]

Well until some of the Moss guys show up,   . . . . .  Looks a bit like the Christmas moss I have seen posted around here a few times.

I found a cool site that might help

http://www.aquamoss.net/

good luck dan 

No not Christmas moss i knew it & have some. It has roots so not a moss.

[kennyman]

hrrmmm so its a flowing plant? For aquarium plants with such small, lance shaped alternate leaves the only other suggestion I can come up with is Hemianthus micranthemoides

[dan2x38]

hrrmmm so its a flowing plant? For aquarium plants with such small, lance shaped alternate leaves the only other suggestion I can come up with is Hemianthus micranthemoides

It is not a floating plant. It is not Pearl Weed either I have that plant in that tank actually. Bugging me I can't find the name... 

[Fishnut]

Maybe look into swamp plants.  Perhaps it's not a true aquatic plant.

[Laura]

I think many of aquarium mosses we're used to don't grow submersed in the wild.  Fishnut got me thinking though that it looks more like a sphagnum moss.
Some plants are grown out of water and sold submersed - they end up with a different shape than we are accustomed to seeing.

[dan2x38]

Laura you are right on the money including the mosses. I've read you can even grow sidewalk moss in an aquarium - that's the moss you see on rocks and of course between our patio stones & sidewalks.

If you ever saw pics of the farms in Singapore where they grow aquarium plants they are all emersed.

[wish_Fish]

could it be Fontinalis antipyretica aka Willow Moss?

[dan2x38]

No not even close... sorry it is erect plant... it is in my substrate now and doing very well. I really like this plant nice foreground/carpet plant for sure.