Plant Suggestions for New Terrarium

I am almost finished building my first terrarium/ vivarium. I used a 20H aquarium. I used the Great Stuff with coco fiber as a background and a combination of sphagnum moss, coco fiber, and orchid bark as the floor substrate. I also plan on placing a layer of leaf litter on top of this. I made a false bottom out of egg crate and between the false bottom and the substrate I placed a layer of weed cloth.

I found a 2 foot 2 bulb T5 fixture that I will use for lighting and I am planning on mounting a computer fan outside the tank on the hood blowing into the tank. For now, I will water with a simple hand held sprayer but may upgrade to a mist system eventually. Since this will be kept inside the temperature range I'd like to maintain in the tank would be upper 60's to about 80.

I am thinking about adding a pair of Dendrobates auratus or tinctorius to the tank but that won't be until at least this summer. I am looking for suggestions on epiphytic and terrestrial plants that will do well in these conditions. Nothing is planted yet so I am open to anything.

I'll try to post pictures of my progress so far once I find the cord to connect my camera to the computer. Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

 

Ok maybe I should rephrase my post a little (Sorry Jon if I was a little too broad and vague with the first one). I like the idea of Dischidias and and would like to mount Dischidia cochleata or something similar on the back wall. I'd also like to place a few small bromeliads (Cryptanthus, Neos, etc.) on the wall. I'm thinking of planting a few low growing plants in the substrate (shorter jewel orchids, tropical ferns) and maybe a pepperomia that doesn't get more than 3-4 inches tall (I'm not sure if that exists).

I guess I should have asked which orchids you think would do well in this. I'm thinking some of the warmer to intermediate growing Pleurothallids and some mini Bulbos... I might even try again with a ghost in an area with the lowest air circulation.

I would like the finished product to look natural but not a huge mess where one or two species (pothos, wandering jew) runs rampant.

 

Thanks Jon I was actually thinking about some of those and I'll look into the others. I thought the ghosts would rather high humidity and low air movement? Also, since I'd be manually watering I could control when it actually got watered. I may be wrong there though.

Mr. B I was thinking some small Angs but I thought it might be a bit too humid with low air circulation for them. If I'm wrong with that assumption let me know. I'd love to incorporate some of them into the tank. I was also thinking of the nepenthes but I'd have to find one that stays fairly small.

I don't have a "traditional" aquarium hood for the tank. I am going to build a screen top and place some sort of plastic (maybe Visqueen) over some parts of the hood. I'm going to mount the fan to this hood blowing outside air into the tank. Also, I picked up a T5 fixture at lowes that was on clearance but it's a shop light not a hood meant for aquariums. I plan on mounting it 4-6 inches above the tank attached to the hood, so hopefully that will cut down on some of the heat that enters the tank.

 

Ok guys, here are the pictures of my progress so far

The first picture is a from the tank opening and the second is from the front glass panel