[Help] Screening species for a biotope orchidarium-vivarium

Hello Orchid lovers!
First of all, I want to apologize for not being able to do my research alone and to take some of your time. Also I want to thank all of you who are reading, and of course the one who will answer.

So.

I am planning to build a biotope orchidarium. A Peruvian one to be accurate. A mid elevation Peruvian cloud/rainforest forest vivarium, to be exact.

What do I expect of this thread. Well I don't expect much, it is an hopeless try not to turn insane due to the amount of species to sort and screen.
I'm hoping from experienced grower to bring me back to reality and remind me species that are too rare or too difficult, from totally different biotope, or that cannot thrive in the condition I will keep them.
I am also open to any specie suggestion and growing tips or personal experience.
I don't want to abuse of your time, but any contribution, might it be very small, is a divine help to me. Really. Thank you very much again.

So with andysorchid website and orchidspecies and some french website and also commercial website I got a list of genus that can be found in Peru/Colombia/Ecuador/Bolivia. But wow. It is quite big.

So, what are the requirement for the plants :
They can't be full sun or need too much sun. They will be kept indoor under LED. Shade loving species are a must. Full shade plants are dream plants.
They should not be too big as I need light for a few other plants (Bromeliad)
The humidity will be very high, always more than 75% and often at 100% saturated air. The bottom of the tank will be fogged. A rain system will water the column.
The tank will be very vertical. Which mean I can easily adjust luminosity level if I have few species which need a lot of light and more other that prefer shade.
Plant will certainly be planted on cork branches or dead wild vine. The upper level of these horizontal virtual cylinder will be occupied by bromeliads, fern and moss so that there's a soil kept between them. Here it will be quite wet. Vertical border of the cylinder will be heavily drained and will receive much more aeration. I plan on fixing orchids here. And on "Special" heavily drained top zone for specie who require a lot of sun.
Also the soil is alive with some isopods and springtails. I don't know if it is needed to mention it but I am pretty novice to it so if you have any remark about it...

Orchids are in blue. The vine is drilled so that running water that keep moss and fern wet circulate without going on sides, the laters will receive water thanks to the high hygrometry and rain system.

The temperature will be between 25C (77F) if I heat it and 21C (70F) if not heated during the day and will drop to 17-18C during the night. Lower temperature are possible during winter night. If I understand correctly, for flowering the difference of temperature between night and day is often more important than the temperature of culture itself (given the temperature is adequate to the specie). Am I correct ? So might it be wise to keep my orchid a little warmer at daytime to benefit from a bigger temperature drop during the night?

The final choice will be a handful of species.
Some small and unexpensive species will be several plants while I plan on putting 1 or 2 interesting, bigger species.

I'm mainly interested by species that :
Bloom often (who isn't ?) or can produce nice foliage quickly.
Is small.
If it is a big specie i'm interested in these traits :
Kind of weird patterns on flowers. Psychopsis are a good example of the kind of flower.

Globally speaking I like alien looking species because they create a mix of disturbing and relaxing atmosphere I like a lot.
So far my choice is on a mix several individuals of one specie of each of these genus : Restrepia, Macroclinum, Comparettia, Lueddemannia and then a "mother plant" that I struggle to find.

Here is a list if it can help you to understand what I am looking for. But it might also confuse you ahah.

So here are some species I pinned by interest.

• Very interesting

Spoiler

Macroclinium sp.
Comparettia speciosa or other similar species (if any)
Dresslerella sp. If it is from Junin rainforest... Maybe D. hirsutissima
Solenidiopsis tigroides Seems quite uncommon.
Dichaea sp. I really like the look of the leaves, but it looks very hard to keep.
Masdevallia sp. There are too much of them I am looking for pretty and intermediate species. I am screening this genus right now.
Restrepia sp. I'm facing the same problem than with Masdevallia because of the huge diversity of the genus. Restrepia contorta seems a good choice but I'd love to hear your opinion about that.
Sigmatostalix sp. Did not dig really into this yet.
Lueddemannia sp. I like it a lot. But it seems to love very warm condition while I will be mostly intermediate.
Coryanthes I can't resist the appeal of a mushroom (not to say something else) looking orchid that has a flask of perfume. But it seems rare in the market, very difficult and it looks like it prefers warm environment am I right ? But it is a big plant from what I saw and it could be a perfect main Plant in the orchidarium.
Gongora sp. Just too beautiful. I cannot resist. Probable mother plant. Any info welcomed.
Cycnoches peruvianum I really love this one but if I understood correctly, they need a very marked resting period which my orchidarium could not provide... So bad. Also I read that you could increase chances to get female (or male) plant with warmer or colder temperature but I cannot find this info again and I don't remember in what language the info was so if you have it, I will marry you if you share it ahah.

• Nice and Interesting

Spoiler

Oncidium trilobum
Telipogon Rare and cool/cold for what I saw
Lophiaris nana Looks like it doesn't like too wet environment so much
Helcia As you might notice the nice&interesting have more patterned and marked flowers than the previous. I love trippy looking flowers.
Ada
Rudolfiella
Catasetum microglossum
Lycaste macrophylla
Stanopea
Schomburgkia Some people say you can skip resting period...
Pleurothallis The genus is huge so I'd be glad to have some direction to research. I really love the leaves and the tiny flower. It might be an interesting to put some green leaves in the orchidarium.
Stelis Same, I will do more research about this little thing.
Dryadella I am looking for intermediate species.
Maxillaria
Scaphosepalum Lovely! Will screen this deeper
Cyrtochilum Infos I found were pretty discordant. So I might dig in this genus if I find some restless high humidity and intermediate species.
Brassia
Oncidium
Caucaea (if markings)
Psygmorchis
Stenia
Macradenia
Catasetum
Psychopsis It might be a cool mother plant. I'm trying to figure out which species don't need resting period.
Mormodes
Leochilus Heard it can be found in Peru but totally unsure
Myoxanthus

• Interesting....
  Spoiler

  Sudamerlycaste Very intriguing specie that I in fact like a lot.
  Xylobium
  Batemannia Species I found were cool-cold growing, any intermediate in the genus ?
  Rodriguezia
  Galeandra
  Elleanthus
  Chaubardia
  Brassavola
  Catasetum barbatum (Resting ! )
  Otoglossum
  Kefersteinia Many interesting species to me.
  Koellensteinia
  Lueddemannia
  Miltonia warscewiczii
  Trichocentrum

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

Really I cannot thank you enough,
Have a good day!

 

Hello !
Thank you for all your informations!
I'm going to read the links you gave me