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Old 03-31-2015, 09:18 PM
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I have been lurking here for a while and just want to post my first post here. About a week ago, I setup my second terrarium with 3 phals. I had my trial run with my first terrarium with a 20g L aquarium tank. That was 3 weeks ago. Made a lot of mistakes (soil being too compacted and wet--using left over dirt from my fish tank, no gas and air exchanges from the outside despite that I have a fan in it and the tank was too small).

With this second one, it is done with a 40g breeder tank, acrylic. It used to be my high tech aquatic planted tank but I decided to grow plants all together, skipped the fish... Let me know what you think and I have couple of concerns here too.

I have to mist the tank at least twice per day in order to maintain at least 70% RH. If not, the RH can drop down to 60% and the soil surface would look dried up. The tank top is well covered and only two 2" dia openings on both far end of the tank for the air exchanges. I may need to build my own misting system and put it on a timer. The soil consists of largely African violet soil (heavy with peat moss) from Miracle gro, some orchid barks, and very generous amount of perlites. I guess the soil is very airy enough and moisture does not tend to stay for long inside the tank. A 4" big computer fan is placed inside the tank, blowing upward. The airflow is strong enough and moves some leaves on the far end corners of the tank. The orchids are placed in their own little plastic containers and not in contact with the soil at all. So, it is easy to water them outside the tank.

The tank's lighting system is powered by 4 t8 tubes, 4 ft long. 2 65k and 2 40k. Using an egg crates false bottom.

DSC_3482 by vracing, on Flickr


DSC_3481 by vracing, on Flickr

This tank isn't new and there are stains on it, oh well.

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