37G Column Viv for Avicularia

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Here's a quick photo update!

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Another quick shot...

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Yesterday I scored my first new epiphyte for use in this tank, a nice specimen of Aerangis biloba for twenty bucks. It's a good-sized plants about 6" wide, but it has a growth habit and flowering habit that should fit well in this enclosure.

The foliage is really cool too. Each leaf has a pair of uneven lobes at the end and a dark reticulating vein pattern. At first glance I thought it was a small Platycerium fern.

I hope that it will do well in this viv. The care requirements sound more or less compatible. It is a shade plant, so I might mount it beneath a Tillandsia or other plant positioned higher on the manzanita branches.

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Here's another quick detail shot from the other night. I am going to remove most of these plants for the replanting project.

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This is a crummy photo, but I wanted to shoot one quick while she was out.

With her molt the avic assumed this amazing dark cobalt blue all over. She is also about 3/4" larger.

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I am going to get back to replanting this thing pretty soon. Since she molted the avic has spent less of her time inside of her silk tube, so I will feel less bad about wrecking it. I will work fast and replace everything so she can build a new one if she wants to.

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I just want to brush her and play fetch with her!

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Yep she is pretty cute.

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Here's the avic hangin' out under one of the little palm trees and munching a tasty roach.

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Well I removed the Panama hat plant, the Schismatoglottis and the philo and now you can see the manzanita a lot better. I also added five different Tillandsia and that Aerangis biloba orchid.



I removed the silk tube. The spider hasn't been using it much anymore and I think she built it mainly for molting. I am going to have to think some more about how to arrange these epiphytic plants to get a nice visual arrangement. I might add one or two more manzanita branches because there is too much empty space on the top right-hand side.

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Here's the Panama hat plant after I yanked it out to start my replanting project. There was five feet of healthy white roots snaking around in the water under the false bottom.

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How do you sleep at night?
It looks cool though.

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Cuddly, creepy, crawly.

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Another quick spider picture...