Moss Balls

I bought one in petsathome when I first added plants about 5 weeks ago.
To be honest, I thought they were a bit like "pretend" plants but after a few weeks the other half said to me "is it my imagination or has that thing grown". I'd been thinking the same.
Anyway, I took it out of the tank and it did break into 3. I rolled the largest bit back up and used a little fish line to keep it a ball. One other bit I made into a small ball and the last bit I sort of flattened and attached to a small rim of broken plant pot using fishing line again.
It is growing fluffy on that bit and the other bits look fine.
I bought another one the other day because they look so good in the tank

I used to roll mine around when I did water changes. I guess that's how they lasted so long. I don't think any amount of rolling would help them now. It's obvious they centres have grown hollow.

That's good to know.

I'd better go and roll me balls!!!!

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Well i'm saying nothing about rolling your balls regularly, not after my "how big are your Harleys" thread  but i am tempted to get one (theres a song there somewhere) or maybe a pair 

Sanjo, did you dismantle a moss ball and put it on a pot? How did you fix it? I am considering alternatives for my moss balls.

I didn't so much "dismantle" it Helen, it just broke into three bits, different sizes.

I've been reading up on them a lot lately and have decided that I am going to do a mini "garden" in a jug like they show in the net.

I took the middle sized bit and gently flattened it.  It was only the rim of a small pot so I used fishing line to wrap around the moss to attach it.

It still looks good (green, fluffy and healthy) but yesterday I took it out of the tank and where it wasn't caught by the line another little bit lifted up. Pushed it back and tucked it under the fishing line again.

I doesn't appear to "grow" on the pot rim like say Java moss would but the fishing line can hardly be seen, especially since it's fluffed up a bit and it makes a nice green interesting shape in the tank, and goodness knows I need something interesting since there are only plastic fish in it. !