Vivarium Builder from Edmonton, Canada

[Grimm]

Originally Posted by CTB

You'll soon be an orchid collector, usually you just need one to bloom for you. Welcome and enjoy!

Haha Im pretty sure you are right! My haraella retrocalla seems to be shooting out a flower stem. Either that or the root in growing towards the light lol. Im excited to get my first bloom! I'll post a picture of the "stem" later.

[Grimm]

Originally Posted by boyong

Welcome to orchid board

nice terrarium you've got there. how i wish i can grow also that kind of gardening

Originally Posted by rangiku

Beautiful terrarium, Grimm. Love the frogs!

Thanks guys. I love my tank, and the frogs are super fun! Im in the middle of my 2nd viv, I'll post pics of it once it is completed. As of now I only have an Oncidium "little cherry" for orchids inside. I constructed a log covered in tropical moss, so I plan to experiment growing orchids on it once I get more.

Originally Posted by silken

I am next door to you in Saskatchewan but I do know that Edmonton has a large orchid society. It might be worth checking that out as there would be lots of sources for trading and buying plants thru them. Here is their website:

Orchid Society of Alberta Home Page

And thanks...I actually already have the next meeting date saved in my phone I'd love to find a good local miniature hobbyist. Worst case, I'll visit my family down in calgary and take a detour to Paramount Orchids. They have a ton of stuff I want!

[silken]

Maybe you could take my order for Paramount and swing by here on your way back home

[Tindomul]

There is no reason you cant increase ventilation a little bit. I have kept dart frogs where there was a computer fan exchanging vivarium air with the outside air during the night time hours. You just need to tweak the amount of time you keep the fans blowing. I too got into growing orchids when I started to building vivariums. I now have a vivarium that is now officially a terrarium (due to absence of animals), and its all orchids.
I keep three Phal species ( parishii, lobbii, deliciosa) and tow hybrids (lovely kid, and mini mark). I have found mini mark to be a little sensitive to rot in the vivarium though, even with ventiliation.
Bulbophyllums love it wet, hot and bright. I would research those. The problem is that just some of them get too big.