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Zebra mussel found within a moss ball. USGS Photo.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Agency of Natural Resources staff scientists were alerted last week that an aquarium plant sold within Vermont and throughout the country may contain an invasive aquatic animal species, zebra mussels
(Dreissena polymorpha). The aquarium plant commonly known as moss balls, may be sold under names including “Beta Buddy Marimo Balls,” “Mini Marimo Moss Balls,” and “Marimo Moss Ball Plant” and were available to purchase in large department stores or through online sales. While the plant is benign, the plants may harbor zebra mussels within the plant, or within the packaging.
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CT officials: Beware of invasive species in aquarium moss balls
Tara O’Neill
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Connecticut officials are advising residents to be vigilant after highly invasive zebra mussels were found in aquatic moss balls in 25 states.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
State officials are warning residents to destroy any aquarium moss balls after it was discovered this week that they might contain the highly invasive zebra mussel.
On March 1, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey learned that zebra mussels were found attached and inside moss balls sold as aquarium plants. While the mussels in the product are invasive, the moss ball is not.
/ Invasive zebra mussels, which are native to freshwater lakes in Russia and Ukraine, first escaped from ship ballast water in the Great Lakes in the 1990s and have since spread to lakes and rivers from Texas to New York. They have no natural predators in the U.S.
The discovery of invasive zebra mussels snuggled in balls of moss in a Seattle pet store followed by a second pet store in Florida has wildlife officials scrambling to contain what could be a new destructive breach in the nation’s decades old fight to control the mussels.
The freshwater mollusks first appeared in the Great Lakes in the 1990s after escaping through ballast water.