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Natural Ecosystems

Locality: South Brisbane, Queensland

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25.01.2022 SPRING HAS SPRUNG IN THE GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE! Everything is flourishing in the greenhouse and greater yard areas! Irrigation is working hard with this low relative humidity. Jub Jub is just as cheeky as usual! Watch to the end for a laugh!

24.01.2022 RED CEDAR BIOTOPE This is a short video of the creation of a #biotope vivarium that is based on the Red Cedar Rest Area at the base of Mount Glorious on Northbrook Road, SE Queensland. The road transects Northbrook Creek in numerous sites and the basic habitat is rainforest margins with She-oak and vine forest. WATER PARAMETERS... As at the site as at 2 MAY 2020 TEMP 17.6 PH 7.2 Cond 216 microSemens TDS 151 ppm Salt 102ppm TETRA STRIP 6 in 1 9/5/2020 Cl 0 PH 6.8 KH 0-3 deg d GH 8-16 deg d NO2 0 NO3 0 Initial Hardscape set up and planting was undertaken between 9th June 2020 - 7th July 2020. Plants and animals were selected using the Queensland Government’s ‘Wildlife Online Extract’ for D’Aguillar National Park, obtained 4th March 2020. PLANTS All Australian Natives used - Aquatic Moss (Fissidens berteroi) Aquatic Moss (Fissidens dietrichiae) Feather Moss (Thiudium cymbifolium) Creeping Beard Grass (Oplismenus aemulus) Creek Fern (Christella dentata) Love Flower (Pseuderanthemum variabile) Waterwort (Elatine gratioloides) River She-oak (Casuarina cunninghamiana) - pseudoleaves as litter layer ANIMALS - Endemic Species that will be added as the tank cycles Orange-fingered Yabby (Cherax depressus) Australian Brush-fingered Shrimp (Paratya australiensis) Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) CLEAN UP CREW Garden Slaters (Porcellionides pruniosus) Landhoppers (Talitroides topitotum) Pill Bug (Spherillo grossus) Springtails (Sminthurides sp.) Sculptured Snails (Thiara sp.) Big thank you to John-Michiel Koens for confirming the identification of the mosses and Glynn Aland for the identification on the Cherax. Also a big thanks to the lovely Katie Jane for permitting the use of her beautiful composition - Fae’s Journey! From her Piano Jane album.

22.01.2022 Read to the end! A very important message here!

21.01.2022 Had a great find in Coastal Heath/Eucalypt Forest over the break! Was on our bucket list of things to see. Very cool! I believe it’s Caleana major. It was literally just a flower stem emerging from the litter layer. There was no sign of the single leaf that can be present.

20.01.2022 Our last bioactive vivarium explained (kinda) in a short video!

19.01.2022 New project we’ve been collaborating on with Kate Scott! This is a 100% cultured Ghost Fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis). This project has been a long time in the making with the first sample isolated around September last year. To my knowledge, it is the first time that fully formed fruits have been grown in culture. We have 2 cultures, one in Sydney and one in SE Queensland and they both fruited at the same time, even with slightly different environmental conditions but both completely indoors!

18.01.2022 Sedge Frog Paludarium This is a short film on how to set up a 600mm x 600mm x 450mm vivarium. This commissioned paludarium was designed to house Sedge Frogs Litoria fallax. ... The client wanted a dramatic waterfall but it is only on for two, 3 hour blocks during the day. There is a 5L trickle filter incorporated into the background. The tank was planted out 2 Feb 2019. The last scene was when it had reached 12 months of age Plant list Small Rasp Fern (Doodia caudata) Blechnam sp. (purchased as B. nudum) Native Violet (Viola banksii) Native Hoya (Hoya australis) Bacopa (Bacopa monnieri) Club Moss (Selaginella kraussiana) Carpet Moss (Racopilum cuspidigerum) Creek Fern (Christella dentata) - germinated in moss Common Spikerush (Eleocharis acuta)

17.01.2022 WORLD LIZARD DAY 2020 Jub Jub and the team hope that everyone had a fabulous WORLD LIZARD DAY today! Spring has sprung in the gardens and our lizards are starting to move around again after a relatively mild winter! The coldest temperature we experienced here was 4 degrees C for just one night and our Boyd’s Rainforest dragons (Lophosaurus boydii), weren’t bothered in the slightest, living outdoors all year round!... Whilst Boyd’s likely don’t experience 4 degrees in the wild, the daytime temperatures in the low to mid-twenties each day, seem adequate for them to survive winter here. Now that they are out and about again, I can’t see any major loss of fat stores or any muscle wastage! It will be interesting to see if these mild winters provide enough environmental triggering for gonad development and breeding for our temperate species. As for Jub Jub, this wild and cheeky little Eastern Water Dragon (Intellegama lesueurii) really didn’t go underground at all! In the rainy spells he stayed under cover but still managed to come out for a bit of sun right through winter this year. I was very lucky to have some quality lizard time on World Lizard Day and he even permitted a couple of sneaky little pats! Check out our previous posts about Jub Jub’s adventures and Near Death Experience! . This is a wild dragon, living freely in our garden for the past 19 months!

13.01.2022 Work in progress. ORCHID GREENWALL So, there’s a sad story behind this one.... Deceased Estate and an avid collector for who knows how long? Greenhouses were overflowing with overgrowth as the owner died age 94 and was unable to tend his plants in the later years. It was hard to find the few diamonds in the rough but either way, we intend to give the plants the love and attention they deserve and what they were accustomed to when the gentleman was in his prime.... Thank you, Mystery Man and may you Rest In Peace.

10.01.2022 A little Australian native experiment we’ve been working on. A bioactive paludarium/riparium with rainbow fish (Melanotaenia trifasciata) and Archer fish (Toxodes jaculatrix) in the aquarium section, with a nice biodiversity of invertebrates, aquatic and terrestrial. There’s a small, floating island that holds specific media for filtration and drainage for planting. The plants include - Terrestrial Moss (Unknown species x 3)... Aquatic moss (Fissidens sp.) Ribbonweed (Vallisneria sp.) Brake Fern (Pteris vittatus) Native Violet (Viola banksii) Native Hoya (Hoya australis) Bacopa (Bacopa moniera) But the star of the show - Red-fruited Palm Lilly (Cordyline rubra) The Cordyline was a seedling ready to be repotted into a forestry tube in September 2019! We placed it in a custom made floating planter and this is the outcome! 1.2 metres (4 Ft) in 6 months! No supplements or fertiliser used!

09.01.2022 A little terrarium we completed over the break. 600mm W x 450mm H x 450mm D. 20 Litres. Inspired by Sydney sandstone, this one will house Spiny Rainforest Katydid (Phricta aberrans), once the plants grow in a bit. The Climbing Fig (Ficus pumilla) was used as it is one of the few plant species the Katydid don’t like to eat.... #terrarium #bioactiveterrarium #bioactive #bioactivevivarium

09.01.2022 Bioactive vivarium for Magnificent Tree Frogs (Litoria splendida) for winter indoors. This tank sits partially in a north facing window and the frogs love to bask here! Clean up crew include slaters, pill bugs, springtails, Caridina shrimp and aquatic snails.

08.01.2022 This project is coming along in stages. Will be awesome when finished and house some of Brisbane’s happiest turtles!

08.01.2022 Soooo excited to find this newborn Prickly Rainforest Skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae), along with 3 siblings, in our bioactive vivarium this morning! Born some time after we checked on the mumma at 6pm last night! Sorry about the quality of the pic...

08.01.2022 Some new pieces for some new projects! Looking forward to seeing how these pan out!

03.01.2022 Today’s effort in the workshop. Looking forward to building some nice scapes with this lot. For terrarium, Paludarium, vivarium and tidalarium.

01.01.2022 We hoomans are capable of AMAZING things! But when we have a project going and the local Green Tree Frogs (Litoria caerulea) hijack it for their nursery..? .... people with a conscience will wait until every last taddy has emerged! We have been building this pond for nearly 2 years! But every time we get a big storm or downpour, we have to wait for these ‘squatters’ to vacate.