Moss Balls In High Ph?

[Scates11]

I am trying to get my tank looking more natural and slowly but surely get rid of the plastic stuff. I am doing this over a long period of time but today I put some driftwood and 1 moss ball in the tank replacing some of the cheesy decorations that were in this part of my tank. I have read a bunch of different things about the moss balls and most of it says that they like an 8.0 ph at the highest, my tank sits around 8.2 so I am hoping that the Moss ball will last. Does anyone see any issues with this ph level? I put a new 18w bulb in my 36 gallon tank so about .5 watts per gallon.

 

[Ps3Steveo]

It'll be fine, moss balls are hard to kill, they're a type of algae.

 

[Scates11]

Great, thanks for the reply! I need to do a bit more research but I was planning on adding a java fern and some amazon sword next but not sure how they will react to my current water and lighting conditions...

 

[Ps3Steveo]

They'll be fine so long as the nutrients are there, they won't grow noticeably but they'll live.

 

[Scates11]

Good to hear, I just dont want to spent the money on them if they will just die quickly. We have really hard water here with a high ph and without installing an RO system I am kinda stuck with that at the moment.