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Oh yeah. The other great thing about the moss is that even though it rests on the bottom, it takes it a long time to grow into the substrate, and you can pretty easily pull it apart from the gravel once it does. You can see I’ve got a pretty coarse gravel. Probably too coarse to be great for rooting planted plants. But the moss pushes aside pretty easily for a gravel vacuum to keep the bottom from sludging up. Then you just fluff it back into shape once the gravel is all cleaned up. Mine does grow fastest under intense light. This is about a 2 month growth under pretty normal fluorescent tank-light tube, starting from a clump maybe 1/4 as big as it is now. Every couple of months I “harvest” a mat of it from each of my tanks and trade it in at the lfs. Fish store credit — better currency than gold!

Best fishes to you. We’re all pulling for your next go at CPDs!