Yesterday, my new aquarium arrived. Yay! At only 2 gallons, it's quite small, but it uses Marineland's extraordinary 3-stage filtration, including the Bio-wheel. Tomorrow, I'm off to Nippon Goldfish to pick up a substrate of Flourite, onyx, or other designed to encourage live-plant growth;

Yesterday, I called Nippon to see if they carried Vesicularia, Java Fern, or Riccia fluitans. As I feared, they don't normally carry Riccia (although they told me they do sometimes grow their own beds of it for sale), they had only one or two Java Ferns left, and had no clue what I meant by Mini Moss. So, I'm going to poke around special order sites before going with alternative specimens.

I've yet to find a definitive source that talks in plain English about organic-nutrient supplementation, but I'll find something, I'm sure.