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Poor man's terrarium
    #5577307 - 05/01/06 01:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Outa curiosity, anybody ever make a small casing with a poor man's terrarium (the 2L soda bottle method?)  I wanna give some as gifts and it seems to me it'd be a heck of a lot easier to transport if there was just a simple casing in the bottom rather than trying to carry the thing around balancing a cake in there :smile:

Idea is do do a simple verm casing, damp verm on bottom -> crumbled cake -> damp verm on top.  Not looking for killer yields or anything, don't really care, as long as one or two guys pop out they'll get a kick out of watching it grow.  Seems to me a soda bottle will be near impossible to sterilize, gonna try some microwaving with the verm in there and see if I end up with a melted mess or not... but thinking the cake is colonized it shouldnt be too critical.  Will re-incubate for a few days before giving it away.

Just wondering if anybody has done anything like it and how it worked, or if there's a better idea to turn a cake into a self-contained portable low maintenence unit that I can give to a friend that'd be great too  :cool:  (Something more exciting than invitro!  Seeing them all mushed up inside a jar kinda creeps me out.)


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Re: Poor man's terrarium [Re: creamcorn]
    #5577349 - 05/01/06 01:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

i'm pretty sure you don't need to sterelize...
cut the bottle in half (where it gets wider/thiner so you can re attach it later with no taping or anything) pour some wet verm then a colonized substrate layer (that was left to sit around 12-24 hours after crumbled... you'd do better with grains then a PF i guess) and then case... you'd have to surround it with foil or something to prevent pinning on the side
then leave it for a couple of days to colonize the casing and give away :tongue:

BTW i've just finished a first flush using bottles as FCs and i set the cakes on a fat layer of verm... after a few days the cakes attach them selves into the verm so unless you're really rough with it you probably won't have to ballance it too much...

it's a cool present and i'm thinking about making some for my friends as well :tongue:


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Re: Poor man's terrarium [Re: Simisu]
    #5577469 - 05/01/06 02:23 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

This topic came up around november of last year as gifts to give for xmas. I'll see if I can find the thread.

*EDIT* here it is. This guy uses a big yogurt container, but it'll all work the same.

So far as sterilization though, just clean it out real good with some bleach/water, then rinse it out to make sure the bleach is all gone. Then minimize exposure to air. That should be good enough considering no one actually sterilizes a casing container... they just clean it out and disinfect real well.


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Edited by tiny_rabid_birds (05/01/06 02:27 PM)


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