It's that time of the year!

[TheBloodyIrish]

My favourite part of the year is here!

Stores and nurseries started bringing in more indoor plants! I am thinking of getting a couple for my Ackies...

I honestly think live plants is good for herps, it improve the air quality and invoke a different behaviour oppose to some of the artifical ones.

What should I go with?

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I'm sorry, I'm an idiot when it comes to abreviations and spelling. What is a "Ackies"?

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

Ackie Monitors, aka Spiny-Tailed Monitor (varanus acanthurus)

 

[dovii88]

nice man i want some for my sav

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

nice man i want some for my sav

Just make sure you cover up the pot really good around the plant... they tend to dig dirt out of it.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Ok, now I know what your talking about. As for plants, hummm....anything non-poisonus I guess. I love using real plants im my enclosures. If you have a tall enclosure ficus trees work great. They are pretty hardy and not that exspensive. So are sago palms. But I have heard their seeds are poisonus to cats and dogs. Jade plants work well too. I have one in with my leopard's for about 6 months now and it's doing fine with them crawling on it. Of course monitors have quite large claws on them.

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

Well... here is my shopping list so far -- only for keeping an eye out. Sometimes they are in stock sometimes they are not; not that I plan to get them all.

Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)
Creeping Fig (Ficus pumilia)
Corn Plant/Cornstalk Dracaena (Dracaena ***rans)
Dwarf Umbrella Tree (Schefflera arboricola)
Fiddle-Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata)
Golden Pothos/Silver Vine/Devil's Ivy/Centipede tongavine/Money Plant (Epipremnum aureum)
Parlor Palm (Chamaedorea elegans)
Pygmy Date Palm (Phoenix roebelinii)
Red Edged Dracaena/Madagascar Dragon Tree (Dracaena marginata)
Rubber Plant (Ficus elastica)
Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
Spinifex grass (Triodia spp.)
Snake Plant (Sansevieria trifasciata)
Spider Plant (Shlorophytum comosum)
Umberella Plant (Cyperus alternifolius)
Wandering Jew/Inch Plant (Tradescantia fluminensis)
Warneck's Dracaena (Dracaena deremensis warneckii)
Weeping Fig (Ficus benjaminia)

If any of these are harmful, let me know!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Pothos is highly toxic to most pets. I wouldn't take any chances with it. So is corn plant. I think Snakeplant and Dracaena's are poisonus too. Most plams are safe excepty for their seeds which in some species are poisonus. Hibiscus is a safe plant and it flowers all year round. It comes in tree and bush form. My iguana loved to eat the flowers off of them.

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

Pothos is highly toxic to most pets. I wouldn't take any chances with it. So is corn plant. I think Snakeplant and Dracaena's are poisonus too. Most plams are safe excepty for their seeds which in some species are poisonus. Hibiscus is a safe plant and it flowers all year round. It comes in tree and bush form. My iguana loved to eat the flowers off of them.

Weird. Are you thinking of English Ivy (Hedera helix) or one of the commonly mislabelled Philodendron spp. that are also commonly sold in stores regarding the Golden Pothos? The Pothos and Dracaenas (Corn Plant, Red-Edged, Janet Craig, etc) are on the pet8safe list. I know Snake Plant and Rubber Plant have a skin irritation problem if ingested, but they don't usually possess a problem with reptiles.

I know I was considering Sago Palm and Bamboo Palm, but then they were ranked highly on the pet-hazard list. Hibiscus is a problem with me though, flowering plants give me a sneezing fist, yet I am not allergic to them according to the allergy tests.

I will look into it anyway. Thank you for warning me, I will double-check. It would diasterous for me to find out if one of my lizards died due to poor choice of flora.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I know for a fact that Ivy, Philadendrian and pothos are highly toxic to cats and dogs. I'm not sure if that applies to reptiles but I wouldn't want to find out the hardway.
A friend of mine who has a jackson has pothos vines in the tank with him. The chances of him eating a leaf by mistake are pretty slim. I warn him thou that all it takes is for his jackson to grab that cricket its aiming for along with the leaf and ingest it. Could be fine, could die.