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Dont buy more glass Dont buy more glass Dont buy more glass Dont b- ooh only €6 for 3?
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 10:03 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:07 |
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I really have to drive to that thrift store. No way I’m gonna find nice stuff like that here in the city. They usually only have very small jars.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:06 |
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Simultaneously I want to build a single big moss terrarium, but I only have the space for a small one...
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:38 |
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Sharing some pictures of sad terraria I found in a craft store Handful of pincushion moss dunked into a jar with a coffee plant and a piece of bark, €60 Handful of unidentifiable brown moss mush and another coffee plant, €50 mrfart posted:I really have to drive to that thrift store. No way I’m gonna find nice stuff like that here in the city. They usually only have very small jars. I highly recommend it, its right next to the Antwerpsesteenweg so its easy to reach by car. I go every week or two and theres always some interesting glass containers, and if you need glass lid options you're gonna find em there in every shape or size. Fishstick fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Apr 28, 2024 |
# ? Apr 28, 2024 11:05 |
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Craigslist came in clutch with springtails today. bought some from a young nerdy guy out of the local university. The pet store back in my hometown was asking $25 for an incredibly tiny culture, and the guy I met was asking $8 but I threw in a few extra bucks for some charcoal on the side and for his patience with me. He has a whole grow opp in his dorm room and when I get more confident/set up in this, gonna buy some rolly pollys/isopods from him. Here's something me and Buglord Sr. worked on when I visited the family Not totally wild about the moss on top of the log but Dad liked it so, thats what matters. This is his proof of concept. He bought some massive glass enclosure but I told him to hold off on populating this and let this one take off/die before he puts a lot more time and energy into the second one. There was also this real temptation to add more but I feel its a slippery slope to having a biologically/visually overcrowded terrarium.
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 03:31 |
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Sr's definitely got the eye for depth Those leafy plants will probably do well but i'm worried about the Tillandsia airplant to the left, if left on moist moss it's probably going to go brown and rot fairly quickly. Tillandsia do well in terrariums but they definitely cant be sitting on wet surfaces - if he has room he can directly superglue it to the bark (or some other piece of wood/rock/etc) with cyanoacrylate superglue. Be very sure about using specfically cyanoacrylate based superglue as that's plant/animal safe and can be used to directly glue plants. Also YMMV but in my experience that specific type of moss will go brown quickly in jars and I havent really figured out why - I've tried using it in a couple jars now and even in the best of conditions where other moss types thrive it just ends up wilting. I've never been able to properly identify them but they're the common "sidewalk" mosses, I think: Sheet or hypnum moss will grow like crazy if you drape it over some bark though! buglord posted:Craigslist came in clutch with springtails today. bought some from a young nerdy guy out of the local university. The pet store back in my hometown was asking $25 for an incredibly tiny culture, and the guy I met was asking $8 but I threw in a few extra bucks for some charcoal on the side and for his patience with me. He has a whole grow opp in his dorm room and when I get more confident/set up in this, gonna buy some rolly pollys/isopods from him. A slice of potato and some more charcoal/hydropellets and you have your own springtail growing op too!
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 09:57 |
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Can springtails "overpopulate" or do they just die down if they overbreed and there isn't enough dead plant to eat? Like would there be any reason to introduce a springtail predator of some sort to larger terrariums or would that just add another thing that can go wrong?
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 10:02 |
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Nah springtails self-regulate over time. That gif I posted earlier with the massive swarm of springtails, that same jar now has a fraction of the population since there's much less active mold to eat now. Springtails themselves don't eat any moss or plants either unless you have a truly excessive population (ie: "I cant see the plants thru my springtails") so it's not really ever going to cause an issue. Isopods, though, is another story Fishstick fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Apr 29, 2024 |
# ? Apr 29, 2024 11:32 |
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Fishstick posted:Isopods, though, is another story I love stories. Tell us all the stories.
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 20:18 |
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Extra Long weekend thanks to Labor day tomorrow, so lots of time to make jars. Had this piece of mopani wood in my drawer for over a year now, waiting for the right moment. It already had a bunch of cavities and was almost hollow, so I drilled through it and stuffed it with wet sphagnum to act as a wick down to the bottom layer. Still lookin for a good lid though. Bonus sneaky slug PurpleXVI posted:I love stories. Tell us all the stories. How it started: How it ended up: Turns out at least some species of isopods are herbivores or omnivores instead of pure detritivores, and they love fresh moss and pepperomia. Also, they live for 3 years each and apparently when not eating, theyre laying eggs. I introduced a couple of centipedes to keep the population down and convinced a few to migrate back into the wild by use of a carrot slice in a plastic cup and have since replanted it, its the shroom jar I posted earlier. Doing much better now that there's not a constant plague of critters eating everything. Fishstick fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 30, 2024 |
# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:34 |
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Thanks thread, I got inspired to make a little terrarium with a turkey tail and bits of moss and sedum from the yard. Now my husband can't complain about me getting more houseplants because this isn't a plant, it's a terrarium. Totally different
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# ? May 3, 2024 15:39 |
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moana posted:Thanks thread, I got inspired to make a little terrarium with a turkey tail and bits of moss and sedum from the yard. Now my husband can't complain about me getting more houseplants because this isn't a plant, it's a terrarium. Totally different It's botanical art, damnit!
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# ? May 3, 2024 21:44 |
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I'mgiving my first terrarium a whirl now too. It's a 29 gallon long aquarium I wasn't using any more How it started How it's going The begonias were not a great idea. Nowhere near enough room for them. At the same time, I'm attempting to propagate and grow out aquarium moss as fast as I can
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# ? May 18, 2024 22:07 |
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Walstadt-tank makers, do you use any kind of bubbler / pump / etc for water movement or for the plant-growing stage?B33rChiller posted:I'mgiving my first terrarium a whirl now too. It's a 29 gallon long aquarium I wasn't using any more It feels like that tank would really benefit from a backwall or some background vegetattion like ferns, or anything other than that reflecting foil? Those moss-covered lavastones are my jam, though Fishstick fucked around with this message at 10:10 on May 21, 2024 |
# ? May 21, 2024 10:07 |
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Fishstick posted:Walstadt-tank makers, do you use any kind of bubbler / pump / etc for water movement or for the plant-growing stage? I'm in experiment mode, rather than any thought to esthetics. I threw the foil bubble wrap behind the tank to take a stab at ALL THE LIGHT.
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# ? May 21, 2024 16:53 |
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I started my 20g walstad tank with a traditional hang on back filter and it probably took six months before everything was balanced enough that I could entirely remove it. Now I just have a sponge filter to make a little circulation. If the tank is small and heavily planted enough, you probably won't need one.
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# ? May 21, 2024 21:32 |
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Made a fresh jar for a birthday gift I loaded this one chock full of springtails given the amount of moist wood, way more than I'd usually add. My colony has been booming too so it's a good excuse. HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I started my 20g walstad tank with a traditional hang on back filter and it probably took six months before everything was balanced enough that I could entirely remove it. Now I just have a sponge filter to make a little circulation. If the tank is small and heavily planted enough, you probably won't need one. I got an Urbyss Q3 30 liter tank for free from a friend and thats going to be my first proper walstad tank, I have a tiny hangon filter for the startup phase so I'm hoping that'll do it. Edit. Both recent Mopani jars side by side. Glass pie tins? Cake forms? for lids Fishstick fucked around with this message at 20:52 on May 27, 2024 |
# ? May 25, 2024 22:23 |
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I've got a bunch of shaggy moss growing on boulders in my yard. Is there a way to scrape it off and transplant it as a kind of moss carpet in my terrarium? Will it just die or can it be grafted? Pic:
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# ? Jun 2, 2024 16:34 |
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Looks like a really nice collection of Silk Moss! I personally have no experience removing moss from boulders or bark without removing the actual substrate as well. For soil i just use a painter knife or trowel, I think some very careful usage of an Exacto knife would work in your case? In theory cutting the "roots" won't harm them since theyre just use for attaching, but I'd still try with a smaller patch first and see if doesn't go brown in a week or 2 when kept in a moist transparant containder.
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# ? Jun 2, 2024 17:14 |
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What'sthat you say? Some copepods will eat fresh vegetation? LoL, great.
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 15:49 |
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Those are some beauties though Edit: In my experience they don't like waxier leaves. Fittonias and some of the more thin-leaved peperomia they'll snack on hard, but I havent ever seen them touch a Hoya or a Peperomia Rosso
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 19:45 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:07 |
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It's ok, no problem. I'll just take it as a sign to feed them a little veggies. I cooked and shelled some peas for my goldfish the other day, and gave the land shrimps half of one. They were all over it pretty quickly.
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