richardcunliffe
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I found this lovely piece of mossy wood on a Christmas walk near the local village of Steep. I've been wanting to do something simple with found materials for a while and a miraculous couple of hours of children playing happily with one another this morning finally gave me some time.
Whilst reading some more similar journals would certainly make things smoother, I'm often the type to stubbornly try things myself. I should probably have paid more attention to what the wood might actually be; It may turn out that it rots away rather quickly but hey! I'll watch it do so. Some of the little sticky bits are from my small aquascaping stash, others just picked up at random from an entirely different location, as are the flinty rocks.
A small sprig of peace lily looks nice at the moment, and I'm hoping that I can get some emersed rotala going as I've loved seeing that on the weeping moss in the 60 Lush.
A tiny fluval pump is sending water to a small hole in the back of the main wood, about half way up. I'm currently using tap (with Prime as I figure it's less likely to immediately kill everything) though intending to top up with rain water going forward. Probably everything will die off in the mid term because of wrong light levels, or it being too damp or not damp enough or not evenly damp or whatnot. I've got the lamp with a little led cob bulb on for a couple of hours morning and evening, and thinking to do the pump on the same schedule. There's no heater, and the hallway it lives in gets pretty chilly overnight. I guess that's probably good for the terrestrial moss, and maybe not so great for the patch of weeping moss and the rotala sprig I've added. We shall see...
Whilst reading some more similar journals would certainly make things smoother, I'm often the type to stubbornly try things myself. I should probably have paid more attention to what the wood might actually be; It may turn out that it rots away rather quickly but hey! I'll watch it do so. Some of the little sticky bits are from my small aquascaping stash, others just picked up at random from an entirely different location, as are the flinty rocks.
A small sprig of peace lily looks nice at the moment, and I'm hoping that I can get some emersed rotala going as I've loved seeing that on the weeping moss in the 60 Lush.
A tiny fluval pump is sending water to a small hole in the back of the main wood, about half way up. I'm currently using tap (with Prime as I figure it's less likely to immediately kill everything) though intending to top up with rain water going forward. Probably everything will die off in the mid term because of wrong light levels, or it being too damp or not damp enough or not evenly damp or whatnot. I've got the lamp with a little led cob bulb on for a couple of hours morning and evening, and thinking to do the pump on the same schedule. There's no heater, and the hallway it lives in gets pretty chilly overnight. I guess that's probably good for the terrestrial moss, and maybe not so great for the patch of weeping moss and the rotala sprig I've added. We shall see...
