Hello people,
This is my carnivorous plants paludarium. I've had these carnivorous plants for five or six months I think. My plants were in bad shape when I first planted them, and I've lost my Drosera prolifera. (And my all-white variation of Drosera capensis, too. They never where healthy to begin with, unlike the all-red variety.) They're all thriving now though, except the two Cantley's Red variants, which are alive but refuse to grow new pitchers. I've used a custom mixture of long-fibre sphagnum moss, perlite, sphagnum peat and quartz sand for Nepenthes and Heliamphoras. For other plants, I used a 1:1 mixture of sand and peat. The plants receive 12 hours of metal halide light everyday, and are usually sitting in an inch of water. I occasionally allow this surplus water to evaporate completely before I add more. The tank currently holds 90 gallons, where I keep an assorted variety of fish and floating plants. The floating island is waterproof. I used to feed them fruit flies, but I've run out of cultures right now.
All comments/ideas welcome. Specifically, I'd like to know what other carnivorous plants are suitable to my setting.
General Info:
Photo album here:
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/Whirlflux/
This is my carnivorous plants paludarium. I've had these carnivorous plants for five or six months I think. My plants were in bad shape when I first planted them, and I've lost my Drosera prolifera. (And my all-white variation of Drosera capensis, too. They never where healthy to begin with, unlike the all-red variety.) They're all thriving now though, except the two Cantley's Red variants, which are alive but refuse to grow new pitchers. I've used a custom mixture of long-fibre sphagnum moss, perlite, sphagnum peat and quartz sand for Nepenthes and Heliamphoras. For other plants, I used a 1:1 mixture of sand and peat. The plants receive 12 hours of metal halide light everyday, and are usually sitting in an inch of water. I occasionally allow this surplus water to evaporate completely before I add more. The tank currently holds 90 gallons, where I keep an assorted variety of fish and floating plants. The floating island is waterproof. I used to feed them fruit flies, but I've run out of cultures right now.
All comments/ideas welcome. Specifically, I'd like to know what other carnivorous plants are suitable to my setting.
General Info:
- 130 gallons
- Water temperature, 28 C
- Eheim 2228 external filter
- Moisture, 100-90%
- Ammonia, 0 mg/lt
- Nitrate, less than 1 mg/Lt
- pH = 7.5
- 400 W metal halide
- Beaufortia kweichowensis, x1
- Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, x1
- Apteronotus albifrons, x2
- Planorbis Corneus Rubrum, a colony of
- Macrognathus circumcinctus, x2
- Trigonostigma heteromorpha, x3
- Polypterus senegalus, x2
- Mastacembelus favus, x1
- Pomacea bridgesii, a colony of
- Polypterus senegalus, albino, x1
- Polypterus endlicherii endlicherii, x1
- Nuphar lutea
- Salvinia natans
- Spirodela polyrhiza
- Limnobium laevigatum
- Eichhornia crassipes
- Pistia strationes
- Venus flytrap, giant Z11
- Nepenthes ampullaria var. Cantley's Red, x2
- Nepenthes ampullaria var. Harlequin, x2
- Drosera capensis, var. all-red, x3
- Nepenthes bicalcatrata, x2
- Heliamphora minor, x2
Photo album here:
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/Whirlflux/