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I needed a smile. Thanks! :blushing:

BTW - here are some of my pet store grapewood mounts (mounted *orchids*, I should say) :evil:

Pet stores rock!

(the last picture is actually in a terrarium and I just misted it so ignore the sogginess - it dries out within about an hour or so but look at those roots and new growth - it's been about 3 weeks) Grapewood is wonderful!!

You're grapewood mounts look great. Grapewood has so much character and convenient gaps and holes for placing the sphag. I also like the way it readily absorbs water when misted. I have a cork mount too, but my personal preference for now is the GW.

Thank you. I appreciate your helpful suggestions. Never thought of shopping for misting equipment while I was there.

Sounds great. I will go to the pet store tomorrow and ask for grapewood. You sold me on it. How much should I expect to spend on a 18 to 20" piece? Approximately

The first and fourth pictures are of my largest pieces and I never paid above $15 for a piece of grapewood at a pet store.

The 4th picture is difficult to see but there is a HUGE bromeliad on one side and a 'chid on the other - the entire thing stands on its own. I pick them for character. The hanging ones I was lucky enough to find with natural holes in them for hanging.

Check the reptile area first and if you can't find anything there, head to the bird area - there are often a few (sometimes smaller though) for bird perches.

Petsmart had driftwood, grapewood, and some sort of wood from Africa that started with an "M" and coconut halves. The wood came in various shapes and sizes, were displayed in numerous areas of the store, and the pricing was rather vague. I found mine in the reptile/amphibian section and there was no price on the tagged piece of wood...only a tag stuck on the shelf beneath that said Lg. Driftwood 8.99. :scratchhead: I couldn't find a shelf tag that said Grapewood, but was happy it rang up at the driftwood price. They had some really big pieces of GW under the live fish tanks. These were considerably larger and much heavier and were priced from 39.00 to 59.00. There's a popular exotic pet store in town that sells their GW for 7 or 8 bucks a lb.

Mopani. It looks really nice but didn't have the holes and crevices of the grapewood that I could find so I haven't tried it (yet). I went with the natural grapevine - the sandblasted didn't look like it would allow as much root penetration.

The "driftwood" that PetCo has says it is river driftwood (no salt) and is grapewood that has been heat treated. I didn't look that close at PetSmart but I'd imagine they use the same supplier(s).

So many surfaces to mount (for orchids, I mean :evil: ) - so little money to buy more orchids. :roll:


That's why I'll just enjoy y'all's orchids for a while.

So many mounts so little time huh? I feel ya sista. LOL
I had to do a lot of work around my yard this morning before coming to work so I didn't get a chance. Hopefully during lunch break I'll hop on a bike and take a quick ride to the pet supermarket. I'll show you guys what I get. I am hoping to spend no more than 10 bucks.

Well I went to 3 diff stores and none of them had grapewood though the last store, a reptile specialty store, had "grapevine" is it the same thing? I ended up getting a piece of driftwood for the terrerium Im putting together,yet another project. The driftwood was too cool looking to pass up. I'll keep looking for grapewood in the meantime and looking forward to my first mount.