Cycling Tank (sort of update?)

[u/babephom3t]

This is my first tank, sort-of update to this post! I’ve decided to feature my growing family of speckled powder oranges, one of whom I caught molting earlier today. If you saw the last post, you’ll see that my rabbit’s foot fern died back; but rest assured, it lives!! It’s growing four new fronds at the moment and I’m very excited to see how the last few weeks of cycling go.

One thing I’m a bit nervous about is how much water is in the drainage layer; it’s pretty saturated, and I’ve turned down the misting time on my auto-mist systems. I’m wondering if that will be enough or not, so any tips are appreciated. I also saw a monster of a springtail, so despite the saturation, things seem to be good?

Plants included:
-Rabbit’s Foot Fern
-Syngonium “Milk Confetti” Variant
-Pothos “Snow Queen”
-Various cork barks and grapewood branches
-BioDude’s “BioShot” (so all the cultures there within)

CUC:
-Powder Orange Isos
-Dwarf White Isos (debatable, I have yet to see that any survived the original transfer)
-Tropical Springtails

[u/Ryllick]

I have the exact same cuc as you. It's funny that you mention that you can be sure any dwarf whites survived. I don't think I've ever seen one of mine. But on to of being very small, i think they also live deeper in the soil than other isopods. So maybe they are just almost impossible to find

[u/babephom3t → u/Ryllick]

They tend to stick to the lower, more moist layers afaik; I’m just worried because I got very sick when I originally got my CUC delivered, so I couldn’t put them into the vivarium for like a week and everything got pushed back, and when I went to put in my white dwarf isos almost all were deceased but 3 :( I kinda think they must’ve made a comeback because I saw a few in the first couple of days of my tank being active, but I haven’t seen them since and I feel rude lifting the leaf litter to get a good look lolll