Far as I know it has never been done but my Lowlanders seem to Love it! all of them are having growth spurts atm.
The increased vegetation seems to make for a more stable humidity since the aquatic plants are not efficient at holding in water so they seem to aspirate much more heat and humidity which in turn helps make for a more stable environment allowing me to run my fogger hardly at all which is the ultimate goal to create something more stable and less dependent on machinery to maintain. Humidity goes through peaks and dips when the fogger comes on and goes off which also ends up water-logging the media requiring more air circulation. Now the media is great, the humidity is great and the plants are great. The Nepenthes do not partake of the water supply the aquatic plants use, they are isolated from it so they get the benefits from the vegetation without the drawback of invasive roots etc... Beauty of the aquatic plants is there is little to no algae bc they block the light and eat the same nutrients the algae needs to live and they oxygenate the water. The coverage of open water is about 85-90% but soon it will be 100%. lastly, it is hard to see but there is a submersible heater in there maintaining a water temp of 75 degrees(which was already in there for the nepenthes) which the aquatic plants also help to stabilize temp fluctuations too. Far as the aquatic plants they are all floaters so only maintenance they need is a couple drops of water soluble fert every now and then.
lmk your thoughts on my strange setup.
The increased vegetation seems to make for a more stable humidity since the aquatic plants are not efficient at holding in water so they seem to aspirate much more heat and humidity which in turn helps make for a more stable environment allowing me to run my fogger hardly at all which is the ultimate goal to create something more stable and less dependent on machinery to maintain. Humidity goes through peaks and dips when the fogger comes on and goes off which also ends up water-logging the media requiring more air circulation. Now the media is great, the humidity is great and the plants are great. The Nepenthes do not partake of the water supply the aquatic plants use, they are isolated from it so they get the benefits from the vegetation without the drawback of invasive roots etc... Beauty of the aquatic plants is there is little to no algae bc they block the light and eat the same nutrients the algae needs to live and they oxygenate the water. The coverage of open water is about 85-90% but soon it will be 100%. lastly, it is hard to see but there is a submersible heater in there maintaining a water temp of 75 degrees(which was already in there for the nepenthes) which the aquatic plants also help to stabilize temp fluctuations too. Far as the aquatic plants they are all floaters so only maintenance they need is a couple drops of water soluble fert every now and then.
lmk your thoughts on my strange setup.