Canada Day Weekend Build! : Clay Background Method

[claymore]

Looking great Grim! Is that java moss?

How often do you have to mist or spray the tank with the water feature running?

[Calebrez]

looking good grimm! whats your plant list looking like? that is a bummer about your broms hopefully they will be ok!

[Grimm]

Originally Posted by claymore

Looking great Grim! Is that java moss?

How often do you have to mist or spray the tank with the water feature running?

Yep its all java, except the small light green section. That is just some riccia moss I pulled from my large viv.
Since I just added the moss today, I will be misting 3 times daily until it acclimates from being submerged to terrestrial. Its friggen humid in there though!

Originally Posted by Calebrez

looking good grimm! whats your plant list looking like? that is a bummer about your broms hopefully they will be ok!

Thanks!

Planted : Ivy, Ficus Pumila (creeping fig), Ficus Pumila (oak leaf), Java moss, Riccia Moss, and 2 unknown Bromeliads (the one without spots may be a Fireball)

To Come: More assorted broms, Round Leaf Pellia, Anubias Nana Petite, Singapore Moss, and some Ficus Pumila (Variegated)

Im also looking for any miniature plants. If anyone has something they would like to sell me I'm all ears as they are very hard to come by up here.

[Calebrez]

Sweet! do you have a top for your tank yet? i picked up a aquan 24" topper that is specially fit for a 20 gallon high tank its glass and folds up so you can feed and have access for feeding exc and a plastic back piece that can be replaced with screen or somthing like that. If your interested ill post some pics

[Grimm]

Calebrez, I have a top for both of my 20 gallon tanks. You can see the handle just above the top trim....

And what do you know, plant order still didnt come in the mail today....
I got the tracking # and searched its progress. It got shipped from Ontario on monday, and arrived at the "Main Sorting Facility" in Edmonton last thursday at 6am.... Can you believe that! It has taken less time to cross the country, then to get delivered across town...OMFG!

I dont expect them to be alive. Even if they are, there is a good chance they got to hot and will rot during the first 2 weeks from what I have read in other peoples shipping threads. If they smell at all rotten, I will be trying to get my money back. That is the sign that they were out of their preffered temp range for too long.

Uhg... I just wanted to do some planting tonight

[claymore]

Who did you order them from? What kind of carrier are they using?

[Calebrez]

Aw man that sucks! Hopefully youll get lucky and they will be ok lol!

[beckdg]

sorry to hear, grimm. i guess the u.s. isn't the only place having shipping issues currently.

[Grimm]

Uhg...Broms look pretty terrible, and not even the types I was hoping for. At least I'm getting a cheque in the mail due to unsatisfactory product for the amount of the plants. I'll mount the broms that may be salvageable tonight. Hopefully they can recover from the lengthy/dry shipping ordeal.

Next time I'll specifically ask for "Neoregelias" (since they held up better), and for a GUARANTEED shipping time of 2-3 days. Im sure if they arrived on friday they all would have been fine, but they just got too dry and a few of them are just about falling apart.

I'll have an update tonight, or tomorrow!

[beckdg]

hopefully that update will include some replacements.