{"id":824,"date":"2024-04-21T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?page_id=824"},"modified":"2024-04-21T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:24:47","slug":"terrarium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?page_id=824","title":{"rendered":"Terrarium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Various terrarium ideas and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=819\">Miniature orchid in a bottle<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-04-21T19:20:50+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">21 April 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I bought a cute little orchid at a plant meet, it&#8217;s an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchids.org\/grexes\/acianthera-sonderiana\">Acianthera sonderiana<\/a><\/em>. Apparently they grow easily in Sphagnum moss, kept very moist, with low light. It&#8217;s an epiphytic species that in the wild (Brazil) grows on branches of trees in cool moist forests. I asked the seller and he said it would be great in a terrarium, so I&#8217;m trying a bottle terrarium. I&#8217;ve got a few discarded laboratory reactor bottles, I think a 1L one would be a good fit. I only just managed to get the little orchid through the GL45 mouth.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":822,\"width\":\"466px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-822\" style=\"width:466px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-210x172.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I used some Sphagnum at the bottom (I hope it will come to life again), some lichen covered grape vines, and some pieces of moss from our balcony. I like how it turned out, I hope the orchid likes it too because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be able to get it out again!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":821,\"width\":\"273px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-821\" style=\"width:273px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568.jpg 563w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568-118x210.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I&#8217;m also trying a few small vining aroids (a Rhaphidophora species and a Monstera species) with some Sphagnum in a 500mL and in a 2000mL lab bottle. I hope they take.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=167\">Vacuum dessicator terrarium<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-01-20T14:48:38+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">20 January 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The lab was throwing out this vacuum dessicator because the lid is stuck.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":168,\"width\":\"334px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20240120_144106.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" style=\"width:334px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20240120_144106.jpg 815w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20240120_144106-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20240120_144106-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20240120_144106-171x210.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I want to turn it into a terrarium \/ ecosystem, but first I have to get the lid unstuck.. Things I have tried:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Dissolving the hardened grease between the ground surfaces in alcohol<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Softening the grease with sunflower oil<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li>Heating the interface with a hair dryer for almost half an hour<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid to put more heat in it because I don&#8217;t want the thing to explode. I know it&#8217;s safe to -1 bar (relative to atmospheric pressure) but I don&#8217;t know how much positive pressure it could take. It&#8217;s pyrex glass though so it should be able to take concentrated heat. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll have to make a wooden jig to slide the lid off with a lever, after applying the hair dryer again to soften up the old grease.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various terrarium ideas and projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}