Thanks for the awesome reply!
Hopefully soil and root-wise they should be fine. My dad found two nearby each other and he dug them out in about a 6-inch ball of dirt and mulch and put them in a bucket, and I simply potted them in the soil they were already growing in. If they were benefiting from any sort of symbiotic relationship hopefully I didn't disturb that.
I gave their soil each a couple spritzes of reverse osmosis water, just enough to make it moist, not soggy. My dad said they were growing in a bottom that stays wet most of the year, so perhaps they are used to a damper soil?
I'm also giving them fluorescent light 12" above them, trying to give them a fairly natural light cycle, turning the light on at sunrise and off at sunset. They're also receiving what little sunlight my north-facing window gets.
The only thing I've noticed about them is that instead of drooping, like I expected they would from transplanting, each leaf stood up and are now pointing upward at about a 45 degree angle. I'm not sure what this means in an orchid, but maybe their happy from the extra light their getting? Should I filter their light more, or perhaps let them have just the indirect sunlight from the window?
Thanks again! I was told by my friend who is an avid orchid grower that growing orchids from out of the wild is usually futile. I'm really sad that my dad did bring them in after I found out that they are far and few between in my area (Southern Illinois), and he had even managed to find a little colony of two! If I manage to make these guys happy, I'm definitely going to take their seeds (should they produce any seed pods) out to where my dad got them on a nice breezy day, and sow them. Hopefully I can help increase the population in my area of these odd, pretty little plants
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