I'm planning to build a highland terrarium for my plant room/home office. Right now I have some highland nepenthes down in a closet in my basement. It gets down to 45/55 in the winter/summer, but it's hard to get the plants above 60 during the winter days. The plants seem pretty happy enough down there but the whole purpose of having the plants is the admire them, not hide them down in the basement, so I want to bring them upstairs.
I'll use a 50-100 gallon tank depend what I find on craigslist.
I've been look at using a 1/10 hp chiller link.
I'm not sure what size of a pump I need. This pump link comes as 160gph and 40gph. I'd appreciate advice on which size to choose.
For cooling I am hopping I could just circulate a couple of inches of water around the bottom of the terrarium under the plants. Would that transfer enough heat or will I need a true radiator?
Also how should I maintain the correct water level in the bottom of the terrarium? I not excited about trying to drill holes in the side of the terrarium.
For lighting I'll just use shop lights, and I have a MistKing for supplemental humidity. I'll control the system with the raspberry pi that I have controlling my lowland and intermediate setups.
I'd really appreciate any advice on my proposed cooling setup.
Thanks,
Matthew
I'll use a 50-100 gallon tank depend what I find on craigslist.
I've been look at using a 1/10 hp chiller link.
I'm not sure what size of a pump I need. This pump link comes as 160gph and 40gph. I'd appreciate advice on which size to choose.
For cooling I am hopping I could just circulate a couple of inches of water around the bottom of the terrarium under the plants. Would that transfer enough heat or will I need a true radiator?
Also how should I maintain the correct water level in the bottom of the terrarium? I not excited about trying to drill holes in the side of the terrarium.
For lighting I'll just use shop lights, and I have a MistKing for supplemental humidity. I'll control the system with the raspberry pi that I have controlling my lowland and intermediate setups.
I'd really appreciate any advice on my proposed cooling setup.
Thanks,
Matthew