Adding Animals To Your Terrarium
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | By now if you've been listening to this week in order, you're probably hooked on the idea of starting |
| 0:17.7 | a terrarium. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm going to do it for the YouTube channel. |
| 0:21.7 | Commitment to the listeners, commitment to you, Ben, are our the to getting started, but like I mentioned as a kid I used to collect animals. I used to collect like little insects. I'd create not really I guess maybe it was a tram. I'd like put them in those little like lunch pale things that have the handle but you can see through them, you know, for like two days at a time and then I'd let them go. |
| 0:49.0 | But can we talk about adding different animals to your true and we've we went kind of deep on |
| 0:54.0 | Isopods and springtails but there are more and then yesterday we talked about how to make a |
| 0:59.6 | terrarium so it let's say you have your first terrarium. It's like moss. It's a |
| 1:04.2 | fetonia, the nerve plant. There's a little bit of texture going on, but you |
| 1:08.8 | haven't added any animals at all. How would someone start? So with a mason jar, the only thing I would add in that |
| 1:16.4 | would be Springtails, because these animals need |
| 1:19.9 | a slightly different container. |
| 1:22.1 | So Iopods need airflow, also to spring tails too, but we can |
| 1:28.0 | get away with springtails with sort of burping the jar every few days, But for a specific terrarium, like each one is different so |
| 1:36.3 | isotopods will require a slightly different container to say a praying |
| 1:40.0 | mantis or a jumping spider. But with isotods you essentially you're going to need |
| 1:46.7 | so the setup is the same with the soil but you're going to need a lot of leaf litter |
| 1:52.2 | because these animals live in the leaf litter they burrow into the soil |
| 1:56.7 | They also like to feed on rotting wood |
| 1:59.4 | So adding a lot of that is is really beneficial the isopods. You're going to have to be a little bit more |
| 2:06.2 | careful around plant species. So I kind of figured out through making these terrariums that |
| 2:12.6 | Iopods will not eat FICA species, |
| 2:16.0 | so the fig family, because they exude that milky latex |
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