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if moss has winter rest periods and i pick it wild durin the summer shouldent it be good till that time of year that it usaily has a rest period?
or wouldent it change sence the climate wont drop in the cage?

Different mosses are pretty specific about their requirements--heat, light, moisture, humidity, so it's hard to tell how long they'll last in a different environment. I don't think there's any harm in trying it out, however. I've had some odd-ball mosses and even ferns crop up on my backgrounds "spontaneously," especially on unsterilized cork bark, and these seem to do better for me than any I deliberately introduce. Sometimes even some cool mushrooms appear.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

I have never been able to identify the weird flower--it was some sort of saphrophyte as it had no green leaves at all-- just the flower. I keep hoping it will come back again.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

looks like some small type of orchid.
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1 Eastern Blue Tongue Skink
2 Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnakes - Knoblochi
1 Thayer's Kingsnake - Thayeri
2 Golden Greek Tortoises
1 Pyxie Frog - 14 years old

That's what it looked like to me at first, too. However, it had no green foliage what so ever, no true stem, and was very watery and fragile like one of the Utricularis (Orobanche or the like.) On close inspection, it didn't have an orchid-like structure at all. The Utricularis that I have seen in the wild are parasitic on desert plants, so it made no sense that it was in a tropical vivarium. They are also usually brown or purple No one in the terrarium forums could help me, either. I keep hoping it will come back some day. It lasted only a couple of weeks.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.