the beauty of pothos submerged is the fish dont mess with it much if at all. from my research the pothos plant will release an deterrent when a fish bites it. apparently they hate the taste of that deterrent. my oscar is pushing 10". he took a bite out of it. spit it out and made a fuss for about 5 minutes. never touched it after that.
Is this pothos
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Oxalate crystals, I think. I've had a few panaqolus chew on pothos rhizome and occasionally roots, but they would only do that on occasion.
Oddly enough, some of my past turtles and tortoises would eat pothos with great relish if they ever got a chance- which was almost never, as each time they were able to sample the stuff was due to accident or negligence on my part.
On a random note, when I was a young kid, I was curious as to how they'd taste, and ate a couple leaves; they're oddly reminiscent of weird, smooth spinach that's a bit tougher to chew. They didn't taste all that bad, I think.
Monstera adansonii, on the other hand, was similar to very thin, bitter, almost powdery celery/bean sprouts (?) with spinach-like leaves as well.
Probably not a good decision to sample them, in hindsight.
Oddly enough, some of my past turtles and tortoises would eat pothos with great relish if they ever got a chance- which was almost never, as each time they were able to sample the stuff was due to accident or negligence on my part.
On a random note, when I was a young kid, I was curious as to how they'd taste, and ate a couple leaves; they're oddly reminiscent of weird, smooth spinach that's a bit tougher to chew. They didn't taste all that bad, I think.
Monstera adansonii, on the other hand, was similar to very thin, bitter, almost powdery celery/bean sprouts (?) with spinach-like leaves as well.
Probably not a good decision to sample them, in hindsight.
Here in Panama, some species in the genus get quite large.
