I added Maynard, the pitcher plant. It's a bug eating plant, but you can't really see it eat the bugs because they just get stuck in there. The gnats are starting to die down, but we still have gnats all over the house. I could sit there all day smashing gnats.
The kitchen waste layer is completely gone now. I did add more kitchen waste but it's all buried in the back in a pile rather than a long layer.
The sweet potato plant has grown so much bigger. The leaves are all the way across the terrarium now and roots are growing out of the stems. The leaves are coming up through the lid that my dad made and pushing up the plastic wrap that we put there to keep the moisture there. The sweet potato's roots are all over the place -- out of the stems, in the gravel, halfway across the terrarium at the bottom -- they're everywhere.
But we haven't been seeing very many worms, only one or two.
Yuck! I just saw a huge mosquito hawk in the habitat. And I noticed a couple of days ago that a black widow spider lives in there too. I don't know what to do about it. Oh well, it's also bug-eating, like Maynard. I'll call it Ashlie. I named the mosquito hawk Rover.
4 comments:
Ashlie, Rover, and Maynard are quite fortunate to have such a lovely environment!
thanks!
I named the sweet-potato Sweety
It's become quite a thriving neighborhood. Sweety rules the joint.
@cheezel
yep
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