Live plants

[Sleaper88]

I now have a 4x3x2 enclosure nd I've got bout 3 or 4 live plants to go in there! Is there such thing as too many live plants???

 

[JonRich]

nope,but you want to make sure there is some open space towards the top for basking. You also want to have proper lighting to keep the plants alive.

 

[kokom05lb]

I have 2 pothos, 2 umbrella trees, 2 ficus, a croton, and a draen - however you spell it in a 2x4x4ft cage. But I'm making this cage an outdoor cage and downsizing to a 2x3x4ft cage. In the new cage I'm hoping to keep the same amount of plants. I only have 4 artifical pieces in his cage. i didnt want to keep artifical plants in his cage even though they are easier to care exp. with us moving in November. I provide plenty of highways for him with 2 branches made to look like little trees and I want to provide this type into his new cage. Yes my boy is spoiled.

I tried the 2x2x4ft cage and he didnt like it. I know that I was able to keep 1 pothos, 1 umbrella tree and 1 ficus in there with plenty of highways but he keep leaving his cage even more than he does now.

 

[Sleaper88]

That's brilliant, thanks for the responses! What lighting would you suggest, I hav a pothos, 2 umbrellas, ficus, nd 2 draceana. They hav just been sitting on the floor in my bedroom for the past couple months with no special lighting or problems

 

[kokom05lb]

I dont do any special lighting even though I know I should... I take all my plants except the pothos outside Sunday morning, every Sunday morning and leave them outside all day, then bring them in. While they are outside I water, clean up any if any dead leaves, clean off poop, and then let them sit. I live in El Paso and its hot and dry here so the soil usually drys up so I dont get any gnats. But that's just me =)

 

[Sleaper88]

I took my ficus outside for a day nd kept it well watered nd all the leaves started dying nd falling off it do you not ever hav this problem??

 

[kokom05lb]

When I first got my ficus I had one on the last straw and I left it out of the cage for a week repotted it and its need doing just fine ever since. Its not growing but its doing ok... I'm on the search of a 6500k plant bulb with fixtured but I can always find the bulb just no fixture... my lowes here sucks =(

 

[Sleaper88]

I was thinking bout 6500k bulbs, would that effect the basking temps etc. ???