Indiana Gardener
Got Drosera?
This was it a while back.
I've been taking it more seriously lately and doing more with it. I am using flourish, lowered the ph from 7.2 to 6.75 with a blackwater treatment, and heating the water to 80*F, but draw the line at co2. I just don't want to mess with it. I grow plants that mostly don't need it anyway.
It will look better once the plants mature more. Maybe they will finally take off better now that I'm heating it. I've had some of the plants for a few yrs.
The green grid on the bottom is plugged with java moss to become a carpet. I just did that the other night. I got tired of not being able to keep my moss down. There's some tied to a couple of the branches too.
There are about 4 more crinum behind the log not tall enough to show yet. That will eventually be my backdrop and overstory waving over my windelov java fern. Then the latter will further screen the base of branches so that only the tips emerge from the greenery.
Note the more amber glow in the newer pics from the change in water color due to the blackwater simulation.
I've been taking it more seriously lately and doing more with it. I am using flourish, lowered the ph from 7.2 to 6.75 with a blackwater treatment, and heating the water to 80*F, but draw the line at co2. I just don't want to mess with it. I grow plants that mostly don't need it anyway.
It will look better once the plants mature more. Maybe they will finally take off better now that I'm heating it. I've had some of the plants for a few yrs.
The green grid on the bottom is plugged with java moss to become a carpet. I just did that the other night. I got tired of not being able to keep my moss down. There's some tied to a couple of the branches too.
There are about 4 more crinum behind the log not tall enough to show yet. That will eventually be my backdrop and overstory waving over my windelov java fern. Then the latter will further screen the base of branches so that only the tips emerge from the greenery.
Note the more amber glow in the newer pics from the change in water color due to the blackwater simulation.