Bonsai Tree With Christmas Moss!!!! Need Advice

[OlgaMolga]

This is going to be my first BonsaI Tree With Christmas moss, I'm not sure If I should super glue to attach the moss or should I just wedge in the moss between the branches. This will be going into my 5.5 gallon ghost shrimp tank.

 

[kallililly1973]

That will look great. I would just intertwine the moss thoughout the branches.... Just curious if there is witch craft going on in the second pic

 

[OlgaMolga]

Gosh darn this is ugly as duck.
The new employee at Aquarium Depot In Citrus heights told me it would work
I guess I'll just play around with it or wait for it to grow out.
I put plant anchors on the tree to weigh it down, How can I get it to sink by it's self?
Do I have to boil it? or is anchoring it down is the only viable choice here left.

 

[kallililly1973]

It'll look nice once its filled in and attached on its own. I would leave the weights on the tree to help it become permanently submerged.

 

[OlgaMolga]

It'll look nice once its filled in and attached on its own. I would leave the weights on the tree to help it become permanently submerged.

Oh good heavens, thank you, yeah hopefully.
Maybe I'll find different moss to fill it in so it is more fluffy bushy , but I kinda like the droopy leaves.

Do you know anything about christmas moss, I know nothing!

 

[Feohw]

Moss never looks quite right when its first attached. Given time it fills in and looks much better. My christmas moss doesn't really attach to my driftwood. I leave it tied there or else it floats away.

 

[kallililly1973]

No info about christmas moss I only have java moss in my tanks sorry.

 

[aussieJJDude]

Xmas moss virtually has the same care requirements (if you can call it that... xmas is happy in pretty much any situation IMO) as java.

Xmas moss doesn't really droop (if you want droopy moss, look into weeping instead) so over time it will look a lot better. Like others said, give it time and it will eventually look a lot better. Speaking of time, eventually the tree will become waterlogged and readily sink on its own.

 

[lilirose]

I have a massive piece of mangrove root in my big tank that has a lot of crevices, I stuffed Xmas moss into them and now the whole thing is dripping with the stuff (more than I wanted, really!). It is weeping a bit under its own weight and doesn't grow upward much. However, I really jammed the Xmas moss into the wood at the start, in a way that you could not do with the bonsaI without breaking it.

I tried supergluing weeping moss to an azalea root in a different tank, wanting to get a submerged "weeping tree" effect, and that moss all just turned brown and died, so I tend to use Xmas moss for all my moss needs as it looks nicer than java moss IMO.