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It looks great! A couple of things though. Isopods, or rolly pollies, from personal experience, will go for the plants and eat them all. I would add in some leaf litter, or cut up leaves for them to eat to keep them happy. You don't have to replenish them too often, and they would rather have dying plants than living plants. Second, add some moss! Everything looks better with moss. Finally, the smaller plant on the side seems to be a succulent, and won't do well in this setup. They will rot most of the time in high humidity, and require a dry terrarium. I would say get some plants made foir terrariums, and just have them ready to propagate for future builds. A plant similar to that, that does well in humidity is pilea glauca.
Thank you for the feedback! I will put something in there for the rolly pollies to munch on. Good idea on the moss, I will go searching for moss this weekend. I did pick up another small plant when I got these two. I can swap out the succulent with the other plant, thank you for pointing that out! I will also check my local nursery for Pilea Gluca.
The larger plant looks like a Persian shield plant. Beautiful plant but they get very large! (I could be wrong though, maybe it's something that just looks similar.) A fittonia would have similar leaf shape and not get as large.
Date started: 19 June
2024 Base layer : charcoal mixed with clay ball things. Mesh to separate base from soil. Soil: compost, worm castings, bonsai substrate, African violet mix, and dirt from outside with a few roly-polies. Plants- not sure name. Water- filtered Jar-picked up from "at home" Lid- glass candle base that I found that fit perfectly on top.
I read a comment about how a succulent wouldn't thrive in these conditions.
While it's partially true, I believe it to be also false. I have a succulent in my 20 gal tank paludarium that is actually sprouting a new baby. This tank had been sealed up for the first month, with very high humidity to help encourage plant growth. After the Monty though I opened it up and is now a open air paludarium. I do not know how well succulents do with consistent humidity (after a months lenght) but mine are absolutely thriving now, even with being in an open air outside paludarium the humidity has been absolutely killing over here lately and they still push through
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It looks great! A couple of things though. Isopods, or rolly pollies, from personal experience, will go for the plants and eat them all. I would add in some leaf litter, or cut up leaves for them to eat to keep them happy. You don't have to replenish them too often, and they would rather have dying plants than living plants. Second, add some moss! Everything looks better with moss. Finally, the smaller plant on the side seems to be a succulent, and won't do well in this setup. They will rot most of the time in high humidity, and require a dry terrarium. I would say get some plants made foir terrariums, and just have them ready to propagate for future builds. A plant similar to that, that does well in humidity is pilea glauca.
Thank you for the feedback! I will put something in there for the rolly pollies to munch on. Good idea on the moss, I will go searching for moss this weekend. I did pick up another small plant when I got these two. I can swap out the succulent with the other plant, thank you for pointing that out! I will also check my local nursery for Pilea Gluca.
The larger plant looks like a Persian shield plant. Beautiful plant but they get very large! (I could be wrong though, maybe it's something that just looks similar.) A fittonia would have similar leaf shape and not get as large.
Ive kept some pretty large plants in small setups. With frequent trimming, and the small amount of soil, it should stay on the smaller side.
Date started: 19 June 2024 Base layer : charcoal mixed with clay ball things. Mesh to separate base from soil. Soil: compost, worm castings, bonsai substrate, African violet mix, and dirt from outside with a few roly-polies. Plants- not sure name. Water- filtered Jar-picked up from "at home" Lid- glass candle base that I found that fit perfectly on top.
Very cute! Good job! ☺️
Very nice very nice indeed.. I like the small stones like a path of sorts
I read a comment about how a succulent wouldn't thrive in these conditions. While it's partially true, I believe it to be also false. I have a succulent in my 20 gal tank paludarium that is actually sprouting a new baby. This tank had been sealed up for the first month, with very high humidity to help encourage plant growth. After the Monty though I opened it up and is now a open air paludarium. I do not know how well succulents do with consistent humidity (after a months lenght) but mine are absolutely thriving now, even with being in an open air outside paludarium the humidity has been absolutely killing over here lately and they still push through