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Well since I let the cat outta the bag on the spray foam thread about my upcoming project I will show you the new material I'm going to build my double stack Highland vivarium and greenhouse terrarium out of. This is called AZEK PVC Trimboard, which is a waterproof "wood" made from PVC...

we had freezing rain a couple of days ago and the ice built up all over the trees and stuff. it's really beautiful up close and from a distance, I took LOTS of pics but some aren't so good. This is also kinda bad though because the trees are being bent over a lot and one of out trees we've had...

here are a few pics of my new children . nep. Truncata Queen of Hearts X King of Spades. its putting on good growth , even after shipping damage you can see the broken, and browned top left, it was the center top just three weeks ago. the large front right picther is all new growth . . nep...

So, I don't know much about plumbing, but I know that many plumbing parts are specialized with a certain type of fluid in mind in their design. I'm wondering if this is true of check valves, and if so what kind of valve I should use for a line where water will run one way and air will be...

Hello, I know this subject has been repeated a number of times, and I looked thru many of the older posts concerning this. (Older being the keyword!) I am wondering what method of cooling people are using. Those of you who are lucky enough to live in a climate where outside growing of...

NEPENTHES N. eymae (3 ) N. (ventricosa x belli ) x dubia ( Dormouse) 2 N. eymae x jacquelineae N lowii x campanulata N. splendiana x dubia ( Triffid ) N. ventricosa x inermis N. " Lady Pauline" N. veitchii x platychila N. lowii x truncata N. lowii x ventricosa It's a small one, but then...

I built a 6 foot tall x 4 ft wide and 2 foot deep wooden plant shelf setup with 3 shelves for my succulents I now want to covert it over to more or less a 3 shelf highland system. All I need to do is add a plexiglass lid to the top and plug a new humidification system on it since it's already...

I am at a cross roads as to what to do further with my sarr collection. This past winter I built an above ground bog much like Pyro's design. It has worked out pretty well and the plants are growing nicely but one downside I think is the lack of control of the water table. If it rains good and...

>To me it looks like an earwig but it has claw like front legs, and it's built a tunnel web inside of my capensis plant. What's odd is this bug has been evading the dew on my plant and still surviving. When I blow on the plant the bug zips down the tunnel real fast down below the all the...

Well, if you've been in the chat room, you've probably heard me excitedly talking about my new grow arrangement that I've ordered and now have fully assembled. I want to create a thread to share with you my thoughts and pictures of this new product. Now, I understand something like this may not...

Hello From The First State, Delaware...... I found you guys (and gals) while Googling terrariums and plants.... Just to show you that I'm sort of into this here's one of my YouTube videos of my 55 gallon vivarium, completed just a little over three months ago...

Hi guys, I am in the process of completing my first grow chamber. I have built it out of pvc, and will be wrapping it with contractor's plastic (the stuff used as drop cloths.) I will try to post pics when (and if) I finish. I have designed it to be for lowlanders (bottom covered part)(I might...

Hey all we are still alive and doing well, have been gone for so long just figured i would drop in and say hi and that we miss ya all.. Have been busy busy busy with racing and with all the plants, we have built a Lowland/Highland grow chamber it is just awsome it stays warm on one side and...

I picked this light up from Lowes yesterday. I couldn't find any info on the internet about it, but I did find some about the bulb. The light is a Utilitech L-90 Fluorescent Floodlight, takes a 65 watt bulb. The box says it puts out 4100 lumens. (sorry for the cell phone pics) I bought...

Alaskan sphagnum bog Great Sundew (drosera anglica) Round-Leaf Sundew (drosera rotundifolia) Bladderwort (utricularia minor?) We happened to be there right at the start of rough-skinned newt breeding season. Here's the pond This is just a cool fungus formation I don't know if this is...

About a week ago I headed to the Gasquet area of Northern California in search of Darlingtonia californica, Pinguicula macroceras, and Drosera rotundifolia. Site 3 This site is a very large serpentine seep alongside a highway south of Gasquet, CA. It is almost a wall of Darlingtonia...

I've been out of Neps for a couple years but after starting with Lithops and Cacti I've gotten the plants back in the blood! So this is the highland Nep/Orchid & CP chamber I want to setup, I will have 3 times the floor space of my old highland chamber with this design and mounted mini orchids...

Well I couldn't stay unpotted for long, I've been percolating the idea of a new highland nep/orchid/cp chamber here's the initial blue prints: The shelves are 4 ft L x 2 ft W x 6 ft H - spaced 2 ft apart Braces/frame will be built of 1" x 4" pine The actual shelves will be egg crate to allow...

Ive always wanted a custom, hand built watch... well Ive been saving my pennys for many moons and now it should be completed in about a month. Being built by Chris Sappas at Wilson Watch Works in North Carolina First the beating heart A Decorated SOPROD modified Swiss ETA 6498...

In my hunt for info on building my new vivarium / terrarium I ran across this video which makes building an all glass terrarium APPEAR quite simple if you have an extra pair of hands to assist. <object width="425" height="344"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R3Jxf8Ck4Us&hl=en&fs=1"...