dallen98
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Hello all, here's an update to my weekend project. Finished planting over the weekend and planning on running this dry start for 4+ weeks. Fully sealed in cling wrap and getting 12 hrs of light per day. Opening twice a day to mist with water and occasional ferts and wabi kusa mist. I also siphon water down with an airline tube if it ever gets close to the plant line in the front. All plants are tissue culture save the fern and moss. Substrate is a base layer of ADA Power Sand Advance capped in Fluval Stratum. Capped with Stoney River black sand at the front for the smaller carpeting plants (HC Cuba). Used the yogurt method to apply moss to the hardscape. So far so good. Only concern is the success of running a dry start with so many stem plants, and tissue cultures at that. Anyone have experience with that? Because tissue culture plants are essentially grown immersed, I'm hoping they'll be just find and send down roots. All of them came in great shape except for the Rotala Macranda, which showed signs of wilting upon purchase. Thankfully it hasn't gotten worse over the week so there's hope. I'll be running CO2 on this setup after flooding.
Plants in soil from front to back:
H.C. Cuba
Staurogyne Repens
Rotala Bonsai
Rotala Rotundifolia H'ra
Rotala Macranda (back middle)
Alternanthera Reineckii 'mini' (in front of macranda)
Plants on hardscape:
Bolbitis Heudelotii Difformis
Bucephalandra Kedegang
Riccardia Chamedryfolia
Let me know what you think, if you have any tips, and what YOU would stock this with when its flooded.
Plants in soil from front to back:
H.C. Cuba
Staurogyne Repens
Rotala Bonsai
Rotala Rotundifolia H'ra
Rotala Macranda (back middle)
Alternanthera Reineckii 'mini' (in front of macranda)
Plants on hardscape:
Bolbitis Heudelotii Difformis
Bucephalandra Kedegang
Riccardia Chamedryfolia
Let me know what you think, if you have any tips, and what YOU would stock this with when its flooded.