Native Plants All Year in Vivarium

[Larry Wardog]

So months later, the best plants are Myrtle and the Dragon's Tail Fern. The English daisy parished due to the drought I put my tank through in September. The fescue grass fell victim to it as well. The Ferns did, but the drought is not going to happen again due to a soon update. The myrtle all survived. None of it died. This is probably the most hardy of the plants I have used. I would recommend it outright. I am going to use bunches of myrtle in the updated enclosure with the ferns. I introduced Pakasandra to the Viv also. It seems to be content. The water lettuce was eaten by the fish in tr water. The water hyacinths I introduced are still alive from august. I am not sure what I want a permenant water plant to be. Must be a native that can live in a confined space. Perhaps a water Lilly or lotice. The insects all survived but the crickets. They were hunted to extinction in the tank. The Woodlice seem to have hybridized into an orange color. I put just 3 in out of hundreds and now I mostly have orange woodlice. They are breeding like crazy. They are through the dirt, the night crawlers have survived as well. I have noticed red wriggles have survived and reproduced. I found springtails through the dirt as well. The evasive insects and pond fish have survived as well. The Centipedes have done the best with reproducing because I have seen almost 10 now. There are few slugs left, but they are there. I have found grey millipedes recently and I don't know where they came from but they have about 12-15 in numbers. Lastly, the pond fish are alive. There are 5 fish that are in the bin. I will eventually be replacing the evasive pests with mosquito fish and eliminating the millipedes and slugs from the tank. It stays in to low 80-upper 60 temp. This has made everything boom in the tank. The greenery and the animals are a lot more noticeable. The insects are too. I'll update after I get the update done next.


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