Fine I'll say Hi
 

Well I guess I'll take the chance to explain my logic for me getting into this hobby:
I have Fish and work ing a Fish store.
I have corals and sell corals too.
I have a Garden and work as a Gardener
I like challanges
Thus I want to attempt Orchids, again in a Terrarium this time.
(My first attempt was along time ago and I was very young and misinformed)

you are still very young. Welcome to the board! Well actually how long have you been a member?

Member of what? This board? Just found the place, but I've got hobies and other memberships that Go back 5 plus years.
I've been interesed in orchids as long as I can rember, I've just never had any luck with them. So that why I joined this place hopefully in the chance of getting some good feedback and information.

vim this is a good place to be! i grow alot of orchids and some in my dart frog tanks! it is very easy to grow most masdevallias and pluerothallids in tanks

Hi Vim,
Welcome to the OB! There are lots of very knowledgeable people in here. It's been a little quite in here due to the big forum upgrades and improvements.

Pick our brains - I am sure we can help your orchid adventures be successful.

well I was going to try to post my diagrams of what I planned to do with my terraium, but I couldn't get the picture to reduce beyond 100kb. So fiddlesticks, well until all my orchid books come in I'm just going to lie low. . .

Haha! Fiddlesticks! I havent heard that in a long long long time!!!! Thanks.

what can I say I'm an old geezer at heart.

Ok since it's too big to post in the forum, I'll just have to link you there.
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...k_tank0001.JPG

Mostly my only problem is getting a canister filter to pull in the water from the reservoir and then have the mister not shor out or mess up

Any pointers let me know

I got a zoomed 501 external filter canister to work for my 55 gallon tank. I have it setup pretty much the same way you have on your sketches.
See:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...55tankLeft.jpg
I hope you can see the intake and the outflow.
ANyway, I had some trouble getting my canister filter working too. I had to fiddle with it just to get it to prime, but It worked. Now I havent serviced the filter since that pick was taken in November or December, and I have to clean it now. Oh boy. Keep working on yours, I bet that it will end up working for you eventually.