Hi, i am preparing my first jarrarium ever. I haven’t had success with planted aquariums before. Sharing the photos of my new jar.
Jar is of 5 litre capacity.
Added local store bought aquasoil 3 days ago after washing.
Got my plants delivered today. There are four plants.
1. I am concerned about whether limnobium laevigatum will survive? Some leaves are partially submerged already. (It took four days for the plants to get delivered in my location- so leaves might be drooped because of that)
2. I got the marsilea hirusta in a netpot, and i just removed the netpot and kept the plant as such in aquasoil. Should i try to cover entire root with aquasoil? It is getting murky when i try to move soil.
3. Should i keep the light on for long? There is indirect daylight in the room.
Ps: the other two plants are- anubias nana and java moss. I am planning to introduce a pair of shrimp after few weeks
by Middle-Frosting2938
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It’s a good start, but I advise against using strong lighting on new tanks with little live plants. It’ll look fine for a couple of weeks before it’s covered in algae, from which you probably won’t recover as a novice. I recommend less intense lighting straight from the top on jars at the start. If your floaters grow well and provide more coverage, you can slowly increase lighting.
No experience with limnobium but you can float marsilea.
Those clover like leaves are emersed and would do much better right under surface with access to atmospheric CO2 and more light, it would eventually send roots and runners with submersed leaves downwards.