70 gallon rainforest orchidarium journal.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Tom! You gotta start man! Those blooms in pictures are nothing compared to seeing them in person.

I also forgot to mention, for lighting, I went with some professional recommendations, saved some significant coin and went with a 6 bulb 39 watt/bulb T5 HO fixture. 3 10k "white" bulbs and 3 daylight bulbs. It's incredible, the tank really looks like its in a greenhouse, very bright diffused light. And everything in the tank loves it so far, and is kicking out new growths like crazy. I'm very impressed with the fixture, and am sold that T5 HOs are the way to go for indoor plant growing.

http://www.current-usa.com/nova_extreme_pro

 

[Anonymous]

Have any updated pics Chris?

 

[Anonymous]

Have any updated pics Chris?

HEY! I need to stop by your shop. You can't let me get away with crap like that.

Still a work in progress.

 

[Anonymous]

Looking great Chris.
Are these all smaller species? It looks like they won't have much room to grow/bloom...but all I know of orchids are the tall ones I see in nurseries.

 

[JeremyR]

I would be more than happy to send you some dirty hybrids....

 

[Anonymous]

Will post updated pics in a bit.

 

[Anonymous]

Up to 50 species. Some of which there are only a handful of specimens of in the US. It's a way worse addiction than reef keeping. And maybe even a more eccentric one.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you considered adding frogs?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not adding animals.

 

[Anonymous]

I think you should add another orchid for every ten times someone suggests adding frogs. :lol:

Looking good Chris, apart from maybe all that egg crate...

 

[Anonymous]

I think you should add another orchid for every ten times someone suggests adding frogs. :lol:

Looking good Chris, apart from maybe all that egg crate...

Well, as you know, aesthetics in this case are secondary to functionality for me. I basically needed an indoor version of a specialized greenhouse. The eggcrate is necessary to make more hanging space.