RETF Custom Terrarium background - Advice and tips needed/welcomed

[deranged chipmunk]

Looks good. Water features are a pain. The number one rule to a water feature, try as you may, the water goes where it want to anyway. Lol that's not a bad thing in your case though, that brass valve would have been bad to have in the system. Even though they don't corrode as easily as copper, still not a good thing in the tank.

What plants did you order?

[Mentat]

Glad you got door replaced! Don't feel bad about waterfall; they are a challenging to get them right. Ones I've liked the most are those were you barely get a drip coming out of a cork piece or similar without any tubes showing. Think a very small pump working against gravity or a deposit that get's filled by misting system and then drips slowly is the way to go .

[DigitalPunk]

What plants did you order?

Nothing to exciting. We already have a couple Pothos for the tank and a snake plant. We ordered

1 - Wondering Jew (I think we got the tri color)
2 - Nematanthus 'Black Gold'
3 - Nematanthus 'Christmas Holly'


there are 2 or 3 others that are slipping my memory right now lol. We must of looked at 100s of plants to find ones the wife wanted to put in the terrarium.

Right now the plan is to pot the 2 pothos at the top to they hang down the back corners and pot the 2 goldfish in the top middle and let them grown through each other and down the wall.

The Wondering jew will go in the wall down by the substrate and allowed to grow out and cover the bottom.

I think we got another Bromeliad, but can't remember if it made the cut.

The tank is going to be covered in plants when it is all said and done. Once I have them in I will post pics for them before and after they are planted.



----- the water feature was ill-conceived by me this go round. I will put a lot more thought into the next attempt at a water feature.

[DigitalPunk]

Got the ship notification on the plants and springtails. They will be here Saturday. The current plan is to get all the new plants in place put the springtails in the substrate and then in a week or 2 move the frogs in.