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Regards
Dean
Hello Dean,
The bubble is around 45Ltrs, it's glass and I picked it up from a bric a brac shop. Being glass, I seriously worry how long it will stay into one piece, but so far so good!!
For the substrate I used Amazonia soil, first the bigger pieces, then the tiny ones on top.
all the plants were bought were growing emerged in gel. they are:
dwarf hair grass - planted in very small clumps.
Staurogyne repens.
Montecarlo
Pogostemon.
Spiky moss - layed on the red moor roots- it's holding itself freely to the wood now.
The plants didn't do much for about 2-3 weeks, but now I'm seeing good growth in all, especially the pogostemon. The hair grass is sending out new runners, but too slowly for me!!
I plant to add some taller stem plants once it's flooded, probably pogostemon erectus and a few stalks of a FAKE red/pink plant as I never manage to keep them alive. I find that using fake silk plants among real growth has always been a good cheat for me... some of them are really very good.
I initially started lighting it with a TMC mini LED tile 400, but I'm not sure it's powerful enough to cover the whole bubble, so I've currently rigged up an old set of T5s which is A LOT of light for this bowl... I'll switch back to the LED once it's flooded.
I also had a heat mat under the bubble to start with, but now I've turned it off as I'm not convinced it was really helping.
That's all really. I spray daily in the morning and have covered the opening with cling film, with a small gap. Whenever I see white mold appear, I just open the cling film a bit and it soon disappears. Because of the heat generated from the T5 lights, I find myself spraying more these past few days, with the tile it wasn't really necessary at all.
I was planning to flood this weekend, but actually, I'm quite enjoying watching this develop without water, so maybe I'll give it another couple of weeks... Keep your eyes peeled for a flooding post, I'll probably be on here begging for help when everything turns to mush!!!!
Thanks!!
John