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Hi all,

I recently bought a new terrarium that I am gonna use for my nepenthes. Its about 500 Liter volume so its pretty big
and I hope my neps dont outgrow it to fast. I am still not sure on the bottom yet but im gonna use these dont know name
in english and have some water at bottom and then use nice netpots for my neps on that with sphagnum in the pots only.
And I am also got setup a misting system for get the humidity up and get it cool looking :p also thinking that I am gonna
add some metal wrap to have on the backside and the sides.


Just a pic:

Awsome terrarium and good luck! What kind of nepenthes are you going to be using?

I will use these ones:

N. rafflesiana
N. ampullaria "Speckled"
N. bicalcarata "Red Flush"
N. truncata "Highland Red"
N. hirsuta

The Mighty Thor wrote:Awsome terrarium and good luck! What kind of nepenthes are you going to be using?

What's the terrarium height?

The Mighty Thor wrote:Awsome terrarium and good luck! What kind of nepenthes are you going to be using?

Its 60-65 cm high 60 with the bottom layer I guess.

Hm this can be a bit low for grown-up neps. But it'll take a while before they grow to this size. The terrarium is really coming up nice

moof wrote:Hm this can be a bit low for grown-up neps. But it'll take a while before they grow to this size. The terrarium is really coming up nice

Yeah I thought so to but iff my neps should reach those sizes then I would just lay them down so they
could grow on the side a little and make that terra to a jungle that would be so nice to watch (:
My goal is to get it very crowded I guess hehe..

I wonder if the top leaf, above most nepenthes pitchers, can move slightly to accommodate for varying levels of rainwater in the pitcher. This is a little off subject but hearing about the misting system made me wonder this again.

Wow, very nice terrarium.

The Mighty Thor wrote:I wonder if the top leaf, above most nepenthes pitchers, can move slightly to accommodate for varying levels of rainwater in the pitcher. This is a little off subject but hearing about the misting system made me wonder this again.

Hello Thor, the neps shouldn't need misting if they are getting at least 80% Relative Humidity.

hb