A Fun Little Nursery Area I Made.

[Jallen]

Since sunlight is obviously of the perfect spectrum to grow plants I thought I'd try to grow them on my window ledge.

First I needed a container, I decided on a 2 litre coke bottle. I cut off the top and put some gravel and water in it:

Then I tied a cut off of rhizome from one of my java ferns to a tiny bit of mopani (got lots of them - smashed a big bit to bits to get them).

Next I planted one of my smalled Vallisneria spiralis in the gravel and took some cut offs from some stem plants I have.

I stocked it (omg maybe overstocked!!??!?/?) with some daphnia:

Then it was done :3

It's a nice little window ornament. I recommend if you have some spare plants you give it a shot. The chances are they will grow fairly quick if you occasionally dose some ferts (of course a TINY amount). It looks really nice too
It's pretty much free, or at least, the cost is negligible.

If anyone decides to do this please post pictures

Oh yeah and I'm thinking of adding pressurised CO2 to it what do you think?

 

[scoliofish]

wow that looks really cool
dd you say there were fishin there?

 

[Jallen]

wow that looks really cool
dd you say there were fishin there?

Nope, I wouldn't keep any fish in an unfiltered tank. The only maintenance to this is adding fish food for phosphates, dead leaves from my main tank for nitrates which will eventually be formed by beneficial bacteria around the roots in the gravel, adding a drop of ferts every few weeks and replenishing water which has evaporated.

One thing - DON'T PUT YOUR HAND IN IT WHEN ITS GOT WATER IN IT. THE VOLUME OF YOUR HAND MAKES IT OVERFLOW

 

[Truck]

Since sunlight is obviously of the perfect spectrum to grow plants I thought I'd try to grow them on my window ledge.

First I needed a container, I decided on a 2 litre coke bottle. I cut off the top and put some gravel and water in it:

Then I tied a cut off of rhizome from one of my java ferns to a tiny bit of mopani (got lots of them - smashed a big bit to bits to get them).

Next I planted one of my smalled Vallisneria spiralis in the gravel and took some cut offs from some stem plants I have.

I stocked it (omg maybe overstocked!!??!?/?) with some daphnia:

Then it was done :3

It's a nice little window ornament. I recommend if you have some spare plants you give it a shot. The chances are they will grow fairly quick if you occasionally dose some ferts (of course a TINY amount). It looks really nice too
It's pretty much free, or at least, the cost is negligible.

If anyone decides to do this please post pictures

Oh yeah and I'm thinking of adding pressurised CO2 to it what do you think?

i did one of these a few months ago with a TY beanie baby box.

i put that light over it for photographic purposes even though then my camera was terrible

 

[scoliofish]

wow that looks really cool
dd you say there were fishin there?

Nope, I wouldn't keep any fish in an unfiltered tank. The only maintenance to this is adding fish food for phosphates, dead leaves from my main tank for nitrates which will eventually be formed by beneficial bacteria around the roots in the gravel, adding a drop of ferts every few weeks and replenishing water which has evaporated.

One thing - DON'T PUT YOUR HAND IN IT WHEN ITS GOT WATER IN IT. THE VOLUME OF YOUR HAND MAKES IT OVERFLOW

ok kwl i think i will try that with a 5 leter when i get some plants

 

[Jallen]

i did one of these a few months ago with a TY beanie baby box.

i put that light over it for photographic purposes even though then my camera was terrible

That looks pretty cool
I actually got inspiration for this from http/www.aquahobby.com/tanks/e_tank0603.php

ok kwl i think i will try that with a 5 leter when i get some plants

Looking forward to seeing it

 

[Truck]

someone did one on ukaps with a cocktail stick lid (16ml) and they used java moss

 

[scoliofish]

someone did one on ukaps with a cocktail stick lid (16ml) and they used java moss

i love java moss

 

[Jallen]

someone did one on ukaps with a cocktail stick lid (16ml) and they used java moss

i love java moss

Once some of mine has grown in my main tank I could try and create a carpet in this bottle. It is cool stuff.

 

[scoliofish]

someone did one on ukaps with a cocktail stick lid (16ml) and they used java moss

i love java moss

Once some of mine has grown in my main tank I could try and create a carpet in this bottle. It is cool stuff.

there is a river near my housethat has tons of the stuff

and here is my (tank well actually a vasen 1 gal)
sorry about the pic and the water is murky coz of the sand

 

[Jallen]

Huh. I thought Java moss only grew in Java, which is an island in malaysia?

Anyway looking good from what I can see through the blur

 

[scoliofish]

Huh. I thought Java moss only grew in Java, which is an island in malaysia?

Anyway looking good from what I can see through the blur

ill try tahe a better pic
someone probly ddnt want there tank anymore so they dumped the contens into da river.

 

[Jallen]

Perhaps. There are hundereds of different types of moss though.

 

[scoliofish]

Perhaps. There are hundereds of different types of moss though.

perhaps

is this a brtter pic?

and here is the moss

 

[Jallen]

Nice The 'tank' is cool.

However that doesn't look like java moss.

Java moss has much smaller leaves. Each leaf on java moss is about 1mm long or less.