Exo Terra nano cube

[Leafmite]

That looks really great! I hope you will have the lighting to your satisfaction soon. I am surprised you don't have a fern or two growing yet that shades everything...I keep pulling them out of my tank and I keep finding new ones (I just found what seems to be a new type!).

[Pattywack]

Originally Posted by bjmac

Patty which is the speckled leaf plant in the ninth pic?

BJ, the speckled leaf plant in the 9th pic is my recovering Lepanthes calodictyon. It has 8 or 9 leaves now though very small, I consider it a successful recovery.

It used to be mounted, growing in a glass ball/orb. It was awesome and flowered constantly. I had a problem with fungus gnats from other tropical plants a year ago and the calodictyon mount was FULL of tiny maggots! I couldn’t figure out why the plant was failing as the gnats were not in the glass ball, apparently they were hatching and flying out onto other plants. I unmounted the plant and potted it into a tiny pot in live spaghnum.

There was one weak leaf left and almost no roots at all. I’ve been babying this one for months. They are beautiful plants with amazing flowers. One day I hope my plant will flower again.

[bjmac]

Thanks Patty I lost mine, but it seemed to have rounder leaves. I let mine get to dry and it would not recover. I like all the Lepanthes they are very interesting orchids.

[Pattywack]

BJ, my plant had round leaves as well. These leaves are small and I’m in hopes it developes rounder leaves as it grows. We’ll see I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

That looks really great! I hope you will have the lighting to your satisfaction soon. I am surprised you don't have a fern or two growing yet that shades everything...I keep pulling them out of my tank and I keep finding new ones (I just found what seems to be a new type!).

Thanks Leafmite! At this point the lights seems to be filtered enough, nothing seems to be receiving too much but it’s still early.

No ferns yet!

[Leafmite]

The ferns are actually a pain. They take over a mount or pot very quickly.

[brammn]

Light wise when it comes to replacing the bulb(s) if it will fit I'd look at the Arcadia Jungle Dawn's - I keep a lot of reptiles/amphibians (chameleons, day geckos and dart frogs) - most tanks have jungle dawns on them and the plants just take off, they're the best thing I've found...