Orchids that do well in terrariums.

[R Srinivasan]

Originally Posted by denvervet

@R Srinivasan Now that I finally have the aquarium in my house its even bigger than I thought. Its pretty huge. I bought it used on Craigslist and have to reseal it first, there is a wonderful video on YouTube explaining how to do it, its just time consuming, not that hard at all... Once that is done we are going to design a background which will have rock shelves to hold the orchids so that the turtles can't eat them and a waterfall or two. I think I am going to take fans out of old computers for air flow. Gotta figure how to do that and get them running. I probably won't get any orchids for it until late fall and then if we have a cool Fall I will have to wait until Spring or see if anyone in the Orchid Club has any to sell. Thank you so much for your advice on which orchids to use, I really appreciate it. In future I will post pics, I might take pics of the whole process which might help someone else out with this type of thing.

My dear you seem to have a terrible phobia of your pet turtles making a meal of the green line above the water mark in the terrarium. Most of these hand reared pets know their masters hand that feeds them regularly. Even fish in an aquarium move in the direction where the master's hand move. These turtles instinctively feed from a specific receptacle. Turtles prefer shredded spinach, carrots, cabbage etc. You be sure they will not move into the little forest of your terrarium. Finally a word of caution: ensure the terrarium garden will be entirely organic. Because there is a water body with live turtles avoid any chemical pollutants in the media even if it is a slow release fertilizer in prill form or plunge-in-sticks.