Rubisco said:
littlefrog said:
Sweet! I never thought of using the brachys. That is an excellent idea, Stan. I'll put some in the next tank. I bet delenatii would do well, too.
Paph delenatii is not a member of Brachypetalum it is a member of Parvisepalum. I personally would advise against using brachys in a terr.
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I would suggest P. moquettianum or any of it allied species.
P. spicerianum was mentioned earlier and I will second that.
Actually I know that delenatii isn't a brachy (although before rest of the parvi species were discovered it was often placed there, for lack of a better home). I was suggesting it in addition to brachys. In my hands, delenatii is a weed, and doesn't much care where or how it is grown, which is why I threw it out there. I would definitely avoid other parvis, especially armeniacum or micranthum, those would almost certainly fail in a vivarium.
Good point about brachypetalum requiring dryer conditions. Although I still want to try them. I think they would do well if kept in a slightly dryer location, perhaps mounted. Perhaps they wouldn't bloom as well as some of the other species, but I suspect they would survive. And they have interesting foliage. I wouldn't put my show or stud plants in vivariums, but it is probably worth trying with some cheap hybrids. Worst that can happen, they don't do well and I replace them with something else.
I think something to be kept in mind with plants in vivariums is that what we are really growing is frogs... If we want perfectly grown specimen orchids (or pothos, or ferns, or bromeliads, or... anything), then we need to grow them in specialized environments, not vivariums. A vivarium is a little ecosystem of sorts, and every plant can't be perfectly happy. I think a large portion of the fun is figuring out what can tolerate growing together under those conditions. Maybe we won't have excellent flowers, but that is OK, what we want is healthy frogs and a reasonably attractive setting to keep them in.