Lucky guys.. wish i could find that stuff around here.

haha thats one of the reasons i left vernon.. next time i go up there i can hook you up with a brom.

Am i alloud toask how much you guys paid for your darts? dont need a vendor or anything just a ballpark figure. i was looking at rhem a year ago. and seeing this thread has perked my interest.

Will also add a pick of newt tank if anyone is interested. just fire bellies with dwarf frogs.

:lol: :snipersm:

depends on the frog.. probably $40 up to alot...
www.canadart.org.. is a good place to look for people close to you that my have frogs for sale.

Ya post pics of your newts

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Inspired
 

Okay, Machete inspired me. Here is my first attempt. I went out this weekend and bought a candle lamp and made it waterproof. I bought some wood and plants from Hawiian Botanicals including one carnivorous, one jewel orchid and two bromilliad and awaiting a panel of LED lights from E-bay. Will probably add a little computer fan later.


I'm sure I have made a million errors but I can already tell, I'm going to like this hobby.

I posted some pics on photobucket but I can't seem to link them.

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i have about 20 orchids in an orchid room aka my shed, the one i think is best for a terrerium is the 'Jewel Orchid' ludisia discolour, they have velvety purple leaves with gold or red veins.
Alot of orchids dont do well in terreriums as they grow in treetop jungles and dont like stagnent air and need high airflow with high hummidity.

justusfish i cant see your jewel orchid where did you hide it?
Phaph type orchids grow well in swampy conditions as well as phrag's they are both lady slipper orchids.

Thats a awsome little terrarium. did you get that candle holder at super store?

jewel orchids are awsome Hawiian Botanicals only had one huge plant last time i was there and i didnt want to take a chance with a un rotted cutting.. i havent been back there because gus is to much... wish i had a place like that closer to me.... any ways to solve the lack of air flow i just put a small pc fan in my terrariums just to keep a bit of air movment and my chids seem to really like it there all growing and flower.


few shots of my most resent flowering.. lasted about 2 weeks.. now its got another comin in shortly.
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terrarium construction
 

bought the candle holder at Rona. Backing at a pet store. Fake rock foam. All else bought at Hawiian Botanicals. I have the orchid on the bottom. Purple with gold veining.

Jewel orchid
 

Here is the orchid. It's at the bottom. I have three in there. They're just shy.


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Kudos
 

It's easy to own an orchid, but kudos to you for getting one to flower!!! HOw did you connect the pc fan? Did it have a plug attached?

lighting
 

Due to the weird shape of the hood of my terrarium, I am using this lighting I found on EBAY. If it works, great, if not, it was cheap and not that big a deal, but it should fit and be totally hidden without creating any real heat issues.

http://cgi.ebay.com/225-LED-Grow-lig...d=p3286.c0.m14

nice how much did you pay for the jewel orchid.. if you dont mind me asking.

Cute little masdevallia. :)

Ok you guys are making me want to setup a terrarium again. :)

small pc fan and a 12V adapter from princes auto and you just cut the ends off and wire them together..

i was looking at thoughs lights too but for a fuge for my fishtank... for a display it might be better to go with the all white light, better green look you know.. if you do end up getting it let us know how it is.. i wouldnt mind picking one up.

heres more chids

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Wow
 

Those white orchids are beautiufl. I think I paid 25 bucks for the orchid. There were three in the pot. I went with the red/blue for growing and will have four tiny white spot lights for regular viewing. I thought the red/blue was more full spectrum. If the whites do the same thing, I might switch over to that later. I'll take photos when I have it up and running. I should receive the lights in about a week.

I love creating artful, mini landscapes.

Latin
 

Delphinus, I'll look to you to help me keep track of what's in my terrarium. I'm bad at names.

I want to see those tortoises destroy fruit! More photos!

Nice orchid, the jewel orchids can also be green with red veins or purple with gold or green with green veins, all look very nice, their flowers are small white with yellow centers and flower quite well for me and its the only orchid i keep in my house with no suplimental light, ( other than splash from my aquarium.)

You will have to keep us informed on how that LED light fixture preforms and how well your plants grow.

got bored today so went plant shopping. found a really cool nursery just out side of aldergrove along fraser hwy... really unorginized and large.. but that makes things fun..


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sweet plants and viv dude. but.................WHERE ARE THE FROGS? lol

haha to many hobbies... not enought time and money.:cry:

haha.. i know i have to many too.. but i dont see myself getting rid of any :D. When i get some froglets ill give you a couple if you want. So far i am not sure if i have any or not.. i think i need to cut back my creeping fig again lol.

haha ya after i got into reefing i figured and pretty much stop the hole plants and terrarium thing but its seems to have now come back and over run my reef tank... (probably because i dont have money to buy new toys and critters for it) but now i got my self into 4x4. as for the frogs that would be sweet i could trade you some plants or somethin.

I was also inspired by this thread, (thanks alot I didn't really need another hobby :smile:) I picked up a 18x18x24 Exo Terra yesterday. I also ordered a Mistking kit.
Still doing my research but I'm planning on doing the FF mods, maybe use an Aqualifter for a water feature and still not decided on which way to go with the background, either Epiweb or Great Stuff.
I'm ultimately hoping to put in a group of D.leucomelas.
Anyone have any tips for culturing FF's? That's the part I'm most apprehensive about.

Haha:mrgreen: Lots of hobbies are good. :twised:


Might be interested in selling or trading my terrariums (minus a few of my mini orchids) thinking of making one big terrarium to house all my greenhouse plants, as i cant justify heating a 6'x6' greenhouse for 10 plants. If anyones interested pm me.

I finished my Exo-terra build, should be fruit fly proof and ready for some leucs.
There is a small waterfall and pond powered by 2 Aqualifters hooked up in parallel.
Picked up some cheap plants at Golden Acres, we'll see what grows. Still need to get a couple small broms for the back.
The Mist King is great, the timer can go down to 1 sec.

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Thanks for the inspiration you guys!

It looks AWESOME!!! Nice work.

Can you post a picture of the timer? When I bought Mist King stuff a couple years ago there was no timer available from him. (I've never gotten around to setting up a vivarium yet, I'm just pack-ratting the equipment until the day comes that I have time to take care of it.) A timer with 1-second resolution is something I'd love to get my hands on. Can it be sold separately or do you have to buy a whole new kit, do you know?

Sure no problem. They sell the timer as a $28.99 add on, you would think they would sell you one separately.
It came in Mistking packaging with nothing identifiable except the product # on the back.
Tony I ended up with way to much coco bark, substrate material and other stuff so if you decide to give it a go let me know.
So now to order springtails and fruit flies.:neutral:

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somethin green for a ugly vancouver day

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Mmmm. Does that ever look great. :)

Don't have a full shot of the terrarium but here is my little guy...

He is a Gargoyle Gecko named Velcro. My brother has Velcro's girl at his place. Actually Velcro is over at my brothers place right now mating. He quite the little machine!

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Just after eating...his mouth is kinda dirty :wink:

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Baby picture!

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No offense, but those torts have some horrible pyramiding happening. And usually in the case of red foots and other forrest torts it's due to either poor diet or too low a humidity. Can I ask what your feeding them? A Diet too high in fruit will destroy them, it should only make up about 10% of their WEEKLY diet, not daily. Not trying to be rude, just hate seeing torts with pyramids. But the pen looks great. At least your giving them room

My sulcatas are rescues and have a little pyramiding because the people who owned them before were feeding them way too much protien and way too much food as it were. They have since stopped pyramiding and are growing up nicely.

You know I am no math geek but if you feed them 10% fruit daily that will still mean they are only getting 10% fruit weekly.

cool lookin gecko you got there and great name too.

Here's an update with orchids and broms. And the new inhabitant.


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Hey Brian how's the feeding thing turning out, you doing the wingless fruitflies or anything like that?

I've been culturing melanogaster and it's been a piece of cake so far. I start 2 new cultures every 11 days and toss them after 30 days. I end up with 4-8 going at a time. I need more frogs!
Actually I'm going to order a couple more leucs from Understory pretty soon so this guy won't be lonely.

I'm using media from Josh's and it's great, it smells like cinnamon.
I've also got a couple of springtail cultures going as well as what I seeded the tank with.

Sure you don't want to change that big tank to a viv? :biggrin:

Given a few things that got me down about the hobby in the last year I actually came closer than you might think. :)

I still do want to setup a viv one day. I just don't really want to start a new project until the big one is done because I have a bad habit of not finishing things before starting others.