Can you "cut" up a marimo ball and "root" it or use it as floor somewhere?

[MC1973]

Can you "cut" up a marimo ball and "root" it or use it as floor somewhere?

I have seen people cut up marimo balls and tie them up again so they ball up so they can have multiple balls...but I haven't seen anybody try and make a floor with these...is it possible to do?

Is it possible to cut up a marimo ball and tie it to a piece of wood and hope it attaches on?

I have also heard that these do not do as well if they are not in ball form...

 

[SiberianBlood]

mine have been cut up for about 2 months now and are even greener than when i got them. everynow and again i squize them into a ball form to get some debris off them and they plop right back into the flat shape they were before. never tried a carpet with them. driftwood is hard because morimo is a slow grower and it needs light all around or it will die

 

[fort384]

I haven't ever seen anyone make a carpet with them. They are just a kind of algae... They need to be squeezed out every now and then as mentioned and also rotated or the side that isn't getting light will rot.

 

[Mr. Limpet]

Is this like what's sold as a (common) moss ball at LFS? Looked similar to mine when I went to plantgeek.net, but not quite.

I have one my fancy fantail likes to use as a toy and it's torn up some, so I was thinking of taking it apart and stuffing some along wide gaps that a peice of DW has. Would it propigate like that or does it just want to "ball up"?

FYI: I'm trying to get a kind of a decaying fallen log in the forest moss affect look. All the other mosses are to stringy to get this look.

Sorry if I went OT

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