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Comments (39)OK, it sounds like some kind of company that prototypes and advertises your ideas. Whether it's worth that is up to you. Without knowing what the product actually is, it's hard to give any advice on whether it would make money. Is it a gadget or a kit of already available hardware? How much could you sell it for? What's the potential market? Is there competition? What's the business plan? All things I don't know very much about, but I suspect they are required in order to evaluate your invention....See MoreHow can I get rid of worms or snails in my plant terrarium?
Comments (5)Hi, Absolutely throw away every plant. Clean out all of the gravel and soil and throw that way too. They have all been contaminated with snails and worms. And make sure you sterilize everything with bleach that goes back into the terrarium including the aquarium. This is very important or you will just introduced the snails and worms back into your terrarium. Using a base of stones sounds good. The jury is still out on the charcoal. Some people think it is needed. Other people say that once the charcoal has absorbed all it can it will start to put contaminants back into the echo system. Next, one needs to put a barrier in between the base and the substrate. This keeps the potting medium from falling into and in between the rocks. The rocks don't do much good if there are no air spaces in between them. Nylon screen from the hardware store works very well. Make sure you get the nylon screen not metal screen. Put your potting medium on top of the screen. What rhizo means by " soilless mix" is a potting a medium that is devoid of loam and worm castings. In other words no dirt. One soilless mix could be milled spagnum, vermiculite and perlite. There are other soilless mixes that one can make or buy. I'm going to let Al and rhizo chime in on that one. I don't know if you know it, but there is a terrarium forum on GW. You might ask some of your questions over there too. Also, start reading through all of the entries. There is a wealth of information out there. Black jungle also has a page devoted to setting up a terrarium. I will put a link to it below. They talk about co-co bedding at black jungle. Again, the jury is out on that too. The people over on the terrarium forum swear by it. The people on the African violet forum swear at it. African violets seem to do poorly in co-co bedding. Since I will have a couple of violets in my terrarium I will not be using the mix. Anyway, I hope this helps. Again, I'm just new to this too. Good luck. Larry Here is a link that might be useful: Terrarium Basics...See Morequestion on keeping air plants in a terrarium
Comments (8)Oh thats beautiful...I have 4 I have lost and I do not know why and the odd thing is they all came from th same company I have some from other places doing great. I have mt finers crossed I wish I had a camara way t show pictures I dont I am elderly and dont ave the new products cant afford that and buy the plants to lol. I have the "Apurima" its croaking meaning looks drying up but not dead I wonder if some go dormant hummm....I will look it up but as I was saying is my fave. Tilly is the duritti one looks weird the other dont weird to. I was told you need two of those by a lovely person on the African violet site. you know the one that looks like "cousin it" I have a board full of those and they are the easiest to get to live in my book....See MoreAir pump for my terrarium...
Comments (8)I think they gonna do ok, they love the outdoor sun, the grow lights work well, but natural sunlight just has that something extra for them. The D. Capensis has a new leaf popping out already, the Nothern Dewthread looks like quite a hardy character, luckily it has thin long leaves which dodged the incoming hail, only 1 leaf got taken out by it. The major consern is the N. Venrticosa, but I think it will recover perfecly. Im just keeping a steady eye on the weather now, we got a hot day now on Tuesday and an expected Thunder Storm on Wednesday, I thought the "thunder storm" warning was for heavy rain, big bangs and pretty lights in the sky, not freaking ice cubes coming down at the speed of light. If it starts looking bad tomorrow Im going to cover my pitchers with big plastic containers, the pot is a tad to big and heavy to get out of the way easily. Hope your terrarium does well :) Cheers Sheldon Oh by the way, I saw a terrarium setup plan on cobraplant.com, they use rocks in the middle of the tank between the peat/perlite mix so that water will run in this center area that is packed with the rocks, they then drain this with one of em suction hoses you use for fish....See Moreback2eight
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