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Plant House REVISED 😎
I now have a tropical pitcher plant and an Australian pitcher plant, as well as a l’il terrarium I made out of lichens and moss from my front yard.
My sundews and bladderwort are doing really well. 🙂
I’ve also added a fan since pitchers like a breeze and a stocking tea bag filled with peat moss to make the water acidic and tannin rich for the sundews and bladderwort.
(I need to re-seed Bob. His previous chia sprouts went ham and then died, as they do.)
My plants 😎
Plant House. 😎 2 sundews, a bladderwort, 2 air plants, Chia Bob Ross, and the Snail Jar.
New plants I got. 😎
Some cool carnivores I got for the Biosquare. I’m hoping my new pitcher plant and sundew will keep the fungus gnat population down. (And maybe the pitcher plant will keep cull some of the cockroach babies because they are super fecund and I don’t want them to overrun their habitat).
Okay, the replacement replacement terrarium came in. LET’S SEE IF IT’S CRACK FREE.
As far as I can tell, no cracks! 🎉
Now I can finally get started on getting it set up and filled with plants and shit.
Haaaa. Yeah, he was swishing blatant dampness around with his tail and I guess I got the photo at the right time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thx!
It turned out pretty okay with the super nice front desk person and the discount on the bill, but still, lack of sleep!
Most of the shit for my bugs’ new accommodations came in the mail today and holy shit are these some Large Boxes.
I also need to get the plants and springtails unpacked like, ASAP.
My carnivorous plant bog! Ft.:
- 3 sundews (Drosera capensis, D. tokaiensis, and D. madagascariensis)
- a tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes spectabilis x mira)
- an Australian pitcher plant (Cephalotus follicularis)
- a butterwort (Pinguicula primuliflora)
- a terrestrial bladderwort (Utricularia sandersonii)
- an aquatic bladderwort (Utricularia gibba)
- 2 air plants (Tillandsia caput-medusae and T. ????? an fuckin mystery)
- a bunch of moss, twigs, and licheny bark from my front yard
- an un-chia’d Chia Bob Ross
The 2 tiny moss terrarium on top of the bog
The bog water ft. the critters and the strands of aquatic bladderwort. The only things I put in the water were Daphnia (D. pulex) and whatever is in the “mixed protozoa” from Carolina Biological Supply. The Daphnia are the little white specks. I have what I think are some sort of hydrozoan, the little noodle guys sticking out of the peat at the bottom with a little crown of tentacles at the end. It looks like of them have like, cocooned themselves in the peat or sphagnum and float through the water in their cocoon and reach out and try to grab at the Daphnia with their tentacles occasionally. I also have little tiny roundworms and what look like some sort of flatworm. I’m guessing all these dudes just hitchhiked in on the aquatic bladderwort. I also had some damselflies that mysteriously showed up in the bog a while back; presumably they hitchhiked in as nymphs.
A video of The Critters in action. You can see the Daphnia as little white specks jerking about in the water and what look like hydrozoans wiggling in the peat at the bottom. You can also see what looks like a white flatworm crawling toward the top right of the waterline.