vivarium

I am very concerned about a small D. adelae that I keep in a vivarium with my White's tree frog. I have several carnivorous plants in this vivarium--a venus fly trap, a butterwort (P. moctezumae) and two D. adelae. The other plants are doing fine, the butterwort especially. But the smaller D...

I am currently building an 18"x18"x24" vivarium for highland nepenthes and related climate plants and CPs. I'll be posting on here pictures of the build process, which should, for the most part, be completed tomorrow after my order of plants arrives. Hopefully this build log/process will...

I am currently building a highland nepenthes vivarium, and I don't know much about plants other than CPs. I have ordered a few things that will go into the vivarium, but I don't know what else would be good to fill it up with. Can anyone offer suggestions? I have been looking at Sword's stuff...

Started putting together another vivarium about a week ago and here it is so far. I will be adding a Ceph. division to the mount of peat/sand/perlite in the next week or two. Once I get the time. The spoon is holding that fern in place until it roots. <a...

Hey folks I'm developing a plan for a semi aquatic tank and I'm curious if there is a floating Utric species (preferably larger traps) or form of Aldrovanda that can live in a tropical vivarium year round and not need cool temps to form turions & go dormant?

Some months back I converted a 12"x48" tank into a sliding front vivarium. Lately I'm finding that all the plastic rails are starting to separate from the glass and from where they were adhered to themselves. Any thoughts on something w/ more holding power than your average Home Dumpo tube of...

I just got a bunch of this Giant Club moss in and only need a little. If anyone would like some just pay the postage or make a trade of a cutting from some other interesting terrarium plant not on my growlist (doesn't have to be a CP). I need to get rid of the excess asap cos I don't...

This poor girl has had her "new" enclosure usurped by other insects twice now, so tonight I finished her enclosure and set her loose in here so I didn't get any more wise ideas. Now she should be able to have a nice new molt with plenty of room to stretch out. Not a real exciting shot but I...

I have this "unidentified" Orchidioides section Utricularia which seems to be doing quite well in intermediate conditions. Here are some pics: And because someone will say it, here is a pic of my U. praelonga coming back after a change in location (along with some volunteer D. sp...

I went to check on my Neps today and there was a bloom on my Nepenthes campanulata x thorelii: As you can see it's a male so if anyone would like to have some of the pollen it should be fresh and ready in a few weeks. here's a shot of the latest pitcher it made (about 6" tall): Here's some...

I'm interested in researching the possibility of getting a M/F pair of small turtles for a planted stream side setup in a 40 gallon tank or larger. I read a book called Turtles for the Terrarium and most all the species described were 12" or bigger when mature, far too large. Some were "only"...

So I've just begun this new 10 gallon vertical vivarium, Still working on the plantings obviously! Some of the first plants: N. belli x thorelii x aristolochioides this is a rooted cutting so I can see it's the perfect diameter for this tank , not too big. This miniature fern is...

I took some new shots of my terarrium shelf area after some additions: I added the final pair of T5HO fixtures to each lowest shelf and the big wall mount oscillating hydroponic fan. I just love the fan, it's quiet and powerful blowing on both shelves and across the whole room so...

Sounds ominous doesn't it? I suppose it is for these little guys... I'm gonna show you how to hatch the pupae and feed your mantids, chameleons or other fly munching critters, I'm sure you could use this technique to even feed your fly traps and other CPs if they don't get access to real flies...

Well it took two days and finally some prodding to get the mature male Ghost Mantis to climb on a new branch to be moved. I wanted to let him do it himself but who knows when that would happen, if ever... So he's in the new vivarium - can you find him? I haven't seen him from behind since...

Not for me but hopefully the mature male ghost mantis. Had this "bridge" setup for several hours along with an oscillating fan to simulate a breeze and he's no closer to getting off his perch. You can see he's peering over there cos I put a couple crickets in the new bigger terrarium and a...

No I'm not making doper paraphernelia but actually looking for a clear acrylic pipe tube that is 12" - 18" in diameter and 24" high Or other larger interesting sizes so I can create a round column vivarium or two. I found some at McMaster Carr but $900 is a bit steep for me! LOL...

While I was planting my Kritter Keeper to vivarium conversion I spotted this little guy climbing the wall, anyone know what sort of Beetle it is? It's only about 1/4" long. I googled green beetle and there's thousands of em, but none with red legs and wings textured like this. Here's an...

Well I've been working on cutting glass to build six of my own "nano-vivariums" (8" x 8" x 12") with sliding fronts. I decided before I start those I should test out my sliding door plan first so this afternoon I converted one of my unused XL Kritter Keeper plastic terrariums, the ones sold...

Ok, I'm either adventurous or just dumb enough to keep trying. I bought three panes of 12" x 16" (1/8" thick) glass tonight and I want to cut it down to six panes of 8" x 12" and then cut the top and bottom pieces to fit. They will be assembled into an 8" L x 8" D x 12" H vivarium with a single...