They have also never grown on flat surfaces like marimo balls do (and, yes, they do that even in brackish water like the baltic sea). I have not observed any 'budding' in commercially available marimo balls. I'Some can get quite a big bigger than marble size in some tanks, but at that size they look like they're about to bud a dozen smaller balls (which they do).

In contrast, my supershrimp mossballs never attach themselves to anything. Apparently, even the balls can grow on flat surfaces in a non-ball fashion. *not* balls) is described in literature from lots of locations.the ball shape is much rarer. Some of those attached pieces grow flat on those rocks covering them. I had to pry balls apart from rocks and other balls to keep them separate and loose. The pieces also attach themselves both to rocks and each other after a while. Although the marimo ball pieces are growing, I still can't see them turning round anytime soon (I'm hoping though.I like these 'balls' too).

It's been a few months now and here are my observations as to what the differences are between marimo balls and my mossballs. I got a giant marimo ball plucked it apart into 50+ pieces and spread the pieces in various freshwater shrimp tanks. I only bought the marimo ball to see how it's similar/different from my mossballs.

I've had my supershrimp mossballs for many years now (about 4-5 years?). Until about two months ago I had never even owned a marimo ball. Mustafa wrote:Although it's possible that my 'Mossballs' are the same species as 'marimo balls', one would still have to explain how marimo balls got into my Supershrimp tanks.

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