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Thanks for the welcomes everybody! I hope to have more updates on the way pretty soon.

I will try to dig up some more pictures. Yes the plastic sheet that the manzanita is mounted to just fits right into the inside grooves of the top plastic frame. Right now I have the whole top covered and with very high humidity (>90%) inside, but there is a small fan blowing air around. When I...

Here are the rest of those pictures I got last night. I am trying to figure out what Begonia this is.

I really want to get some jewel orchids. I saw some pictures of wild plants and the brown jewel orchids looked really cool against brown leaf litter.

This is a different tank, a 30G growout, but I wanted to link this picture quick with real nice foliage plants including Hoffmania, Sanchezia and a few others.

Any more updates? When will you have the williamsi?

Here it is with plants... I have kept a number of these plants in there, but replaced a few of them. I really like to use palms in these setups. This largest plant is a NOID Geonoma palm.

Here is the manzanita driftwood feature that I included in here. It doesn't look like so much, but it took me the better part of a day to put that thing together. The manzanita branches are attached to the 1/4" plastic sheet with stainless steel screws. Here's the whole deal.

If you can find it or make ABG (Atalanta Botanical Garden) mix is real nice for potting terrarium plants. It has very sharp drainage, decomposes very slowly and is free of perlite and other particles that may cause trouble.

That's an antique glass telegraph insulator. We used to find those along the railroad tracks when we were kids, but then they became a collector's item and people went out and picked them all up. I was trying to make this setup look like a little scene out in the woods.

I put an old shed in this diorama-style viv and it made a nice effect.

Here's the enclosure with Forest Floor false bottom...

I like those little coffee plants. They really look like some kind of little jungle understory seedling growing up through the leaf litter.

Hey I got that url redirected and here is the link... www.SelvaTerrarium.com That is just a temporary placeholder and it will eventually have its own site, but it will take me a little while to have it up.

Here's the tank. This is a Marineland 37G Column. It's 20" wide by 18" deep by 24" tall. I really like the shape.

Thanks Laurie! I have lots of ideas for how to do this kind of setup. You can put together a real nice planting with regular houseplants or wherever, or you can track some more unusual collector plants if you might like more botanical interest. The Forest Floor setups are nice because...

37G Forest Floor Viv Hi! I am a new member here. I don't keep chameleons (yet) but the more I look around the more I want to put together a setup. I really like the idea of some of those pygmy chameleons. I might try to see if my local store can source some for me. I have a 12" X 12" Exo...

What's wrong with the hibiscus? It looks pretty good in there to me. That should be a good plant to use to fill in with and maybe later you can replace with something more interesting. Maybe it will bloom in there too.

Yeah plants from that store tend to be smallish, but it looks like you got nice selections. Several of those plants should start to grow right away. The Asplenium bird's nest fern is I think actually an epiphyte, but people grow that one as a regualr potted plant so as long as it doesn't get...

I look forward to seeing them.