vanishing edge phrag tank

[RJSquirrel]

well I made a phrag tank and all thats missing are the phrags...I dont know what I did but I sure hope Im paid for awhile..

Had another one them free giant ceramic heavy heavy duty planters. Downsized the cork tree some and used the pump since I need a bigger pump to do what I wanted to do .The pump works great for my Phrag Tank..These guys are just in there taking a bath playing in the water


it had to be almost perfectly level.I say almost pretty much perfectly level or you get too much water flowing over one the sides and it wont drop into the tank

but looks cool and It wll work filled it with Rainwater and tested it...clean stuff ready for some phrags to stand in






all it need is phrags!!

[dendro photo]

isn't that going to drown the plants??

[RJSquirrel]

its only an 3/4 of an inch deep and made for water loving phrags.. them in there now just having a day at the beach ,,they go back in the window when they done taking a break from boring orchid life

[dounoharm]

interesting idea!! looks cool, but wouldnt the sun burn the orchids? what about shade covering?

[RJSquirrel]

its in the house under flourescent lights here

south window with frosted lexan hockey glass yeah I got that outta da trash too

[Mikeg]

What kind of tillandsia do you have in the back there?

[RJSquirrel]

the large one is a concolor and the small one is a Brachycaulos..some ionanthas are hiding around there some where

[Mikeg]

That's really cool!!

[RJSquirrel]

bromeliads, tillandsias, and orchids grow very well together all around for me..Throw in some bonsai put them in a living landscape and you have become saikei artist

[smweaver]

Very cool-looking set-up. How do you keep algae from growing in the standing water? I would assume that you can't put any chemicals in the water to keep the algae population down because the same water's being drawn up by the phragmipediums. Just curious because if I fill up a bucket of RO water and let it sit in the sunroom for more than a week without using it, it seems to start growing algae.