The zoo med hydroballs are very small grade...

I bough two packages to try and have not decided if I like them or not yet.I did order regular hydrotron this week also and am going to take most out of the zoomed stuff and most likely use it in humidity trays instead.I am going to keep a few in it for a while yet to see how they do in it though.

so you think the zoo med is too small to use for s/h

you could always try lava rock. Most big box stores, even walmart, carry the stuff, and it seems people do have some success with it

lava rock works to??!???!??! they have that at the lgc!!

I have no opinon yet on the zoo med I just put several chids in it last week since it was available and I was out of the kind I use...

I realy think its a bit to small but dont know how it is going to work yet.It will be great in humidity trays though so if it dosent work out for s/h it will get used for that.

It does shift around a bit too much I think and does not hold the plant is place as well but that may get better as new roots fill in....I was in a chronic overwaters crisis lol and needed to get a bucnh of new chids out of bark and into a medium that is more forgiving.

I find watering a bit difficult with the zoomed it gets washed out of the pots easy if it is just it in a pot and not s/h...and it also floats up too easy so far and lets the plant fall over when flushing in s

ohh, okay maybe il order some then. let me know how it works