mini vivarium with canivous plants

[glenn cain]

Hi all,

I've seen some of the threads and posts, as well as linked sites discussing setups. Right now I own a very small sundew (dox...something) and a saccarenia(spelling?) pitcher plant, the short small and fat ones. At first I was wondering if I could combine them in a high humidity setup assisted by a small water source with guppies to prevent mozzies, the 'pond' will assist with keeping the substrate moist.

As I keep looking through, I had more ideas. So right now I am abit lost with my directions. For one thing I know i'd like to start small, and simple (but not plain). Is there any direction for that? Is there someone's post or work which I can refer to?

I am prepared to maintain a T-5 lighted setup btw.

[dkk08]

Hi Glenn, I'm a big fan of carnivorious plants too. I own 3 nep (2 Nepenthes Amp, 1 Nepenthes Viking), I'm actually quite a newbie at carnivorious plants, only got into it 2 months back.
Incidentally I'm keeping them in my 2.5ft cube tank and they're doing extremely well with amazing growth rates and I really mean amazing because I can see growth every day for the pitchers and the leaves.

I'm also using T5 on them and I cover the tank with 12mm thick acrylics with only 4 1in holes at the corners

[glenn cain]

great to hear that from you. do you happen to have a picture of your setup?

[glenn cain]

I was wondering which sarracenia species mines is. seems like the purpurea. can some expert verify it for me









Thats the drosera paradoxa right beside. so i'd like to plant them together in a vivarium setup~

[Xmant]

How do you guys take care of them? Do they need any special thing?

[glenn cain]

15 hr direct sunlight, dunnot cover, water in tray at all time, must be moist at all time, optional feeding~ so far thats what i know

[dkk08]

whoa nice sarracenia species u've bro glenn! I keep mine in a mixture or peat and sphagnum moss in their pot in the tank...

these are some pics of the tank about 1month plus back (not sure if I can link it from another forum here)
http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/sh...8+tanks&page=2

Mod if cannot do delete for me and I'll post the pics when I'm home. Thanks!

[David Moses Heng]

whoa nice sarracenia species u've bro glenn! I keep mine in a mixture or peat and sphagnum moss in their pot in the tank...

these are some pics of the tank about 1month plus back (not sure if I can link it from another forum here)
http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/sh...8+tanks&page=2

Mod if cannot do delete for me and I'll post the pics when I'm home. Thanks!

nice vivarium you have there. can share how you built it and how was the spray foam?

[dkk08]

nice vivarium you have there. can share how you built it and how was the spray foam?

the sprayfoam wasn't used as I've read that it could deteriorate over time and crickets might just chew off them and its unhealthy...

I left the background untouch (though I've bought real cork bark from Nature Aquarium) and basically used bogwoods/driftwoods covered with moss and ferns to block out the pipings...

will try and update with more pics soon

[glenn cain]

i couldnt really see the bigger picture when i press the thumbnails, but from where it is, it seems really nice, does it have a 'pond'?

[dkk08]

hi Glenn, yes it does has a pond. The 2 sides are the "land" and the middle portion is the pond

[glenn cain]

oic. interesting formation~

i was thinking if CP could be planted vertical?

[dkk08]

vertical? dun get you. I'm very interested in your sundews thou

[\LALA/]

Hi i am recently into sundews as well.
I got a pot of D. burmannii and D. fliformis. Where did you get your D. paradoxa? i like the shape of the plant.

[guqin]

i was thinking if CP could be planted vertical?

It is possible. Some of the Nepenthes and Pinguicula species are found on cliff faces in nature.

[glenn cain]

oic. thats interesting, but i'd like to view any setup that has a 1ft cube, i think its a great size to start a vivarium, so any kind soul out there?

[guqin]

You can get Nepenthes easily in Singapore but they are all typically much larger than 1 foot in width and height!

There are small pinguiculas, aka butterwort, but they are very rare in Singapore. Those that are occasionally found for sale can grow rather large.

This is one of my plants. The pot is about 6 inches across.


Here is a couple of links to two species of Pinguicula growing on cliff faces.
http://www.pinguicula.org/Fernando/A...xes129(HR).jpg
http://www.pinguicula.org/A_world_of...uala16(HR).jpg

[Simon]

not advisable to mix pings together with your sundews and Sarracenia unless they are non-mexcian var. which prefer wetter media than the mexican var.
Those interested in sundew aka Drosera, drop by World Farm or Far east flora, they got some local supplies of D. fillformis, D. buranmmani, D. intermedia and P. primuliflora, apart from these, WF have some P. tina, typical VFT and many sized Sarracenia (not familiar with them hence can't ID them).

Glad to find more members into CPs in AQ

[Simon]

I have created a thread for other OT discussion

Link