- Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:31 pm
#302383
I have a 29 Biocube aquarium that I want to turn into a terrarium, and it should be a good size. The usable space is about an 18" square, and there's a hood that includes a light and ventilation fans. I'm not sure how bright the light is, but it's a pretty good one.
I've recently ordered some live sphagnum for a project, but I turned out to need much less sphagnum than I thought. That, and, as compensation for not shipping the moss on time, they sent me a lot of extra. I now have roughly four square feet of sphagnum moss, and I want to use at least most of that for this.
My thought is that I can make a false bottom in just the corner third of the terrarium, put a peat/perlite mix over that, and fill the rest of the space with sphagnum. The sphagnum chunks are a few inches thick, and they'd keep getting thicker, so I could keep an inch or so of water in the bottom without flooding any plants that were growing in the sphagnum. I could also plant things in the peat area, and I'd have some mopani wood and some granite chunks for hardscape.
This would be a bog terrarium, and I'd put smaller sundews, some bladderwort, and tropical pings in it. I have a N. sanguinea that I'd like to plant in one area, as well. I know it'll get big, but I should be able to feed it out a gap in the lid once it starts to vine, and it can get to a couple feet long before then.
I'd also plant some non-carnivorous companion plants, including a couple species of terrestrial orchids if possible. Any suggestions on that? It'd need to be smaller, non-invasive plants that liked to be relatively wet.
Any general advice?
I've recently ordered some live sphagnum for a project, but I turned out to need much less sphagnum than I thought. That, and, as compensation for not shipping the moss on time, they sent me a lot of extra. I now have roughly four square feet of sphagnum moss, and I want to use at least most of that for this.
My thought is that I can make a false bottom in just the corner third of the terrarium, put a peat/perlite mix over that, and fill the rest of the space with sphagnum. The sphagnum chunks are a few inches thick, and they'd keep getting thicker, so I could keep an inch or so of water in the bottom without flooding any plants that were growing in the sphagnum. I could also plant things in the peat area, and I'd have some mopani wood and some granite chunks for hardscape.
This would be a bog terrarium, and I'd put smaller sundews, some bladderwort, and tropical pings in it. I have a N. sanguinea that I'd like to plant in one area, as well. I know it'll get big, but I should be able to feed it out a gap in the lid once it starts to vine, and it can get to a couple feet long before then.
I'd also plant some non-carnivorous companion plants, including a couple species of terrestrial orchids if possible. Any suggestions on that? It'd need to be smaller, non-invasive plants that liked to be relatively wet.
Any general advice?
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