So I'm going to use this to keep track of my new build of these two new terrariums I'm starting!!

I'll make a fully described post of the entire project but I felt like making this thread now so that I actually make sure I don't just drop the photos in a chat thread and actually give y'all a how-to for my builds!

Little sneak peak!! I think I've decided on the background layout I'm combination with the accent Tillandsia species. These three are going to be what I'll likely use. T. ionantha'Mexico' - 10 head cluster, T. fuchsii , and T. albida 'minor'/'dwarf'. I wanted these light/white pops to accent, with my vision of creating the back wall into a green wall like a canopy with the epiphytic ferns. I think it should come out good I just need to make the background once more orchid bark and sphagnum moss gets here!


Can't wait to start planting!

Okay so I finally got around to being ready to plant this terrarium! I call it "Above the Forest Floor" a living wall using Epiphytic ferns!

The inspiration wood piece: May 8th:





Making the background with the piece!: May 16th:









And oooOoOo in the tank it looks so gooood!!: May 18th:








And long process finally come to fruition a few months later after the plants were propagated for the build! Exciting planting day today: August 11th: (Next 4 photos)

first few ferns in!: Pictured from top to bottom Microgramma heterophylla, Lemmaphyllum microphyllum, Pyrrosia lanceolata!





And two more ferns in! : additions top left to middle Pyrrosia nummularifolia, and Microgramma vaccinifolia, plus one of my older Tillandsia ionantha sp. Guatemala clusters to bring some contrast when it's leaves dry some!




And then todays stopping place to let it establish some before adding any finishing touches and accent sticks, wood, leaves!: one other addition is another Lemmaphyllum microphyllum bottom left and some Ficus pumila 'Quercifolia' floor right next to accent stone!




Hope y'all enjoy seeing this as much as I do! I love doing these DIY builds! It's a lot of fun and they are great projects for me to work on and towards! This tank is probably not 100%done I may add some more branch elements in. I am undecided what life form may go in here, potentially some more arborealish isopods Isopoda sp. "Capria" or maybe a very small Amblypygi spp, or possibly a Hymenopus coronatus!! I miss having mantids so that would be pretty cool again and that species prefers humidity so that would work if I warmed it up a bit!

Now the really fun part begins…letting the fern wall grow in!

Gratefully
~Connor

Cutes!!!

sedumzz said: Cutes!!!

Thanks!!

That's awesome! It earned my entire cache of acorns, .88. LOL!

Thank you, Sedumz! I fixed Connor's "earnings" from the post to 5 that I originally had in mind until the system said I was over my spending limit. LOL!

purpleinopp said: Thank you, Sedumz! I fixed Connor's "earnings" from the post to 5 that I originally had in mind until the system said I was over my spending limit. LOL!

Thanks for my earnings!! Appreciate the love and support!

Connor - That is artistry! I absolutely love it!

I don't know what creature(s) will make that home, but what a lovely home for the plants! You are very talented.

I keep thinking of Red Eyed Tree Frogs as the creatures to inhabit your art work:
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/...
https://animaldiversity.org/ac...

purpleinopp said: Thank you, Sedumz! I fixed Connor's "earnings" from the post to 5 that I originally had in mind until the system said I was over my spending limit. LOL!

That some how strikes my funny bone that the acorn system allows only so much spending over what period of time? I was wondering how the decimal point entered the reward system . How do you give .88 acorns away and 1.25 away.

And curious what the time limit is for spending acorns? Not that I would ever have that to be on concerned about.
I like the acorn award system . It's a great way to let our garden friends know how much their efforts are appreciated and enjoy their contributions.

beckygardener said: Connor - That is artistry! I absolutely love it!

I don't know what creature(s) will make that home, but what a lovely home for the plants! You are very talented.

I keep thinking of Red Eyed Tree Frogs as the creatures to inhabit your art work:
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/...
https://animaldiversity.org/ac...

Thank you Becky!! I appreciate the compliment and support!!

Well I have decided that right now with our apartment lease I can't put a frog in it, so it will definitely be an invertebrate of some type! It will likely be some type of mantis since I am just starting to process of keeping and breeding mantids again!

Wow! You did a GREAT job! You are an artist.

Bea, LOL! I just meant that I was out of acorns that day. It looks like your post earned a lot of partial (cracked?) nuts! : )

.99 - LOL Sedumz! Thank you.

I just couldn't resist nibbling a little bit off of that acorn
They are edible, after all!

LOL!!

Tiffany and sedums .. had a good chuckle … I needed that..
For 13.71 acorns..
You two are like the chipmunks around here ….so busy ..

Haha, cute!
@Smotzer
Today I found Armadillidium vulgare in my rock garden! I even found a magic potion! I need to start a colony inside. SO CUTE1

I don't think I can keep up with Sedumz, but thank you for the kind words, Bea. ; )

Found a magic potion? That must have been in a fairy garden.

A magic potion isopod is a morph of Armadillidium vulgare with variable green/yellow markings

OK, thank you. ...so it was in the fairy garden!