Green Thumb Aquatics

So I will be posting more pics as this goes on, I have ~ 20 species I plan on starting with and ending up with 50+ after a few club meetings and one joint meeting with the GWAPA

here is the soil I plan on using, bought it from the local hydroponics store in PA



also I was thinking about laying the bottom 2" with this stuff and possible putting some sort of a screen so the soil doesnt fall down into it, and just keeping the bottom 2" submersed in water so it stays very moist but does allow more oxygen in the soil


its generally used for hydroponics and aquaponics




this will be in a 75 gallon I will be using with hopefully 4" pots, however all I have now is 5" square ones, I will probably setup a few smaller ones as well and play with water levels and soil levels to see what works, also I want to use different humidities and amounts of air/openings to tank....

will try to keep this journal up so other can learn from the mistakes I am sure I will make

and also hopefully see what works for me too

Green Thumb Aquatics

3 of these are the exact same plants, just different levels of the stuff underneath, want to see what the difference in growth is
plants are glosso, HM, and DHG belem, will see if it makes a difference, just filled with the foxfarm soil overtop, they were all both from emersed and submersed with about the same amount of each, I also stuck another plant in there I dont know what it is, and didiplis diandra and some microsword

AaronT

Interesting. I think you're the first one to try bat guano as a nutrient source in their emersed setup.

FreedPenguin

I also find this very interesting!
I am planning on doing one myself!
Please keep updating!

Green Thumb Aquatics

so so on the startup, a few of the plants were already converted over, and some were not, so when I saw a little white fuzz pop up after 2 days, I decided to give it some air, possibly a little too much, playing around with how much of a gap to leave so I can keep in humidity and keep out fungus/mold...

Window7

Here my setup, 55g I just put up couple days ago.

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Green Thumb Aquatics

looks good, what are you using for a cover? how much light? what kind of soil? how high a water level?

I am using strictly RODI in mine as I have no clue what is in my well water, only the general TDS... dont know if I already mentioned that

Window7

Cover are just clear plastics roll about 3mil
Light is just shoplight I got from walmart t8 with 2 65k bulb.
Soil is just top soil.
I'm using tap water without being treat.
I'm also using shake and feed from mirco grow.
Water lvl is 1-2 inch below soil lvl.

I get a reading of 66-70F with 99% H.

Green Thumb Aquatics

I got some elatine triandra

planted a new foreground in one of my tanks and had alot left over so I setup a 5 gallon emersed, one of the planters is mineralized worm castings on top of hydroton with a little UP aquasoil in between to close up some of the large gaps in the hydroton

I did this in the ones with lower hydroton levels to keep the soil a touch higher..





here is some emersed growth on my 20 gallon

954baby

Looks cool, I tried a fox farm soil once. It defiantly grew my crypts without any problems. I currently use their grow big hydroponic fertilizer on my plants. Best of luck, should be interesting to see how this mix works.