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Large Exoterra terrarium after 1 year

Hi all,

Spring migration is over and I hope to be in here more often now.
Here is a picture of my exoterra terrarium that I built 1 year ago this month. I think its doing nicely. :biggrin:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/...f276ba57_z.jpg New Terrarium by tindomul1of9, on Flickr

Thanks for the comments!

Looking really good!

It's beautiful! Can u describe the growing particulars like lighting use, watering and misting schedule? Also the types of plants in there? Thanks!

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The lights are on for 12 hours a day. They are T5 high output lights from hygrofarm, 8 bulbs. The fixture with the square footprint.

I have a fogger that stays on from 9AM to 11 AM and then again for maybe an hour after 9PM. There is a misting system from mistking that goes off once a day for two minutes around 10AM.

I have a ventilation shaft built into the right side of the tank's background. There is a hole on top and a hole near the bottom, in between there is a computer fan that runs 24/7. This keeps the air in the tank constantly moving and circulating. The top hole sucks in air and the bottom hole spews out the air. The humidity levels never drop unless I open the doors. Also I have the situated only 4 feet away from an air conditioning unit that I kept on fan duing the winter and is on cool now. The main purpose of the ac is cool the air outside the tank to keep the heat from the lights from warming up the tank.

The temperature in the tank has been constant at around 74-78 in the day during the winter and 68-72 in the day now in the summer.
At night the temp can fall to 58, and it usually holds steady at 60.

Here is a link to a older picture, the comments on the picture has a list of plants.
https://flic.kr/p/g1UeiH

Looks awesome Tindo! Hope you took some amazing pics of the birdies too!

Fantastic! The setup is beautiful!