Drainage
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Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
So you mean you want to plant live plants ON the background? Unless the plants are bromeliads or some sort of airplant I don't see how that will work. Terrestrial plants will need a pocket of soil for their roots. If you are making your own background out of foam (like Great Stuff) you could form the pockets for the plants and drill holes in the bottom for drainage. There are some good terrarium building websites around that might give you ideas for anchoring plants. Look at dart frog websites too.
If you mean how to drain the cage bottom itself that's a different story. If you have layers of substrate and soil for the plants you'll need a drainage layer below the soil or the plants' roots will just rot, the substrate will be boggy, moldy, and smell. Not healthy for the cham either. You could keep the plants in their pots and bury the pots in the substrate, but again with all the misting and humidity chams need you may still end up with a boggy smelly mess. Depending on what the bottom of your cage is made from you could drill drainage holes, attach tubing and run the water into a bucket underneath.
If you mean how to drain the cage bottom itself that's a different story. If you have layers of substrate and soil for the plants you'll need a drainage layer below the soil or the plants' roots will just rot, the substrate will be boggy, moldy, and smell. Not healthy for the cham either. You could keep the plants in their pots and bury the pots in the substrate, but again with all the misting and humidity chams need you may still end up with a boggy smelly mess. Depending on what the bottom of your cage is made from you could drill drainage holes, attach tubing and run the water into a bucket underneath.
