Julian
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I've been running this set up for about 4 days now and it seems to be going well, just wanted to see if anyone could offer me any tips and check that I'm doing things right.
Plants are HC, Staurogyne Repens, Eleocharis Parvula, Hydrocotyle sp Japan and some Rotala Rotundifolia. There's also some mystery moss that I've blended together and applied to the hardscape using the yoghurt method.
Water level is a few millimeters below the substrate, lights are 2x TMC Mini 400's set at 50% for 9 hours a day. It's not in any of the pictures, but to create humidity, there's a bowl of water with a heater in it that sits in the front right corner. This keeps the ADA soil nice and wet, even at the top of the slope, it never has that dried out look to it and most of the hard scape looks fairly moist too. The majority of the plants have moisture on the leafs, a few of them don't and the leafs have started to curl ever so slightly so I'm wondering if it's worth upping the humidity a bit more. Currently it's at 22C / 90% Humidity. I'm thinking I could leave things how they are and just mist them twice a day, but I want to try and get away without misting at all, it's been 4 days so I think if things were really bad the plants would be doing a lot worse.
Thoughts please! Thanks!
Plants are HC, Staurogyne Repens, Eleocharis Parvula, Hydrocotyle sp Japan and some Rotala Rotundifolia. There's also some mystery moss that I've blended together and applied to the hardscape using the yoghurt method.
Water level is a few millimeters below the substrate, lights are 2x TMC Mini 400's set at 50% for 9 hours a day. It's not in any of the pictures, but to create humidity, there's a bowl of water with a heater in it that sits in the front right corner. This keeps the ADA soil nice and wet, even at the top of the slope, it never has that dried out look to it and most of the hard scape looks fairly moist too. The majority of the plants have moisture on the leafs, a few of them don't and the leafs have started to curl ever so slightly so I'm wondering if it's worth upping the humidity a bit more. Currently it's at 22C / 90% Humidity. I'm thinking I could leave things how they are and just mist them twice a day, but I want to try and get away without misting at all, it's been 4 days so I think if things were really bad the plants would be doing a lot worse.
Thoughts please! Thanks!