Pothos???

[Tortdad]

I'm confused... many of you use and recommend pothos plants but when I google them I see they are poisonous to animals if eaten. Why do we use them if they're poisonous?

 

[JoeDigiorgio]

I'm confused... many of you use and recommend pothos plants but when I google them I see they are poisonous to animals if eaten. Why do we use them if they're poisonous?

I've also seen it listed as toxic many times but I can tell you it's been used for a very long time and I've seen veiled chameleons eat it without issues.

 

[kinyonga]

Some of my gravid female veileds would strip a pothos plant bare and they were fine..and so we're the hatchlings.

 

[jamest0o0]

I've wondered this same thing, technically they are, but for some reasons as mentioned above Chams seem to be fine with them

 

[Tortdad]

Okay cool. I'll go back to the garden house and grab them. I had the lady there helping me pick out plants and she said you know that's toxic right??? I googled it and put it back thinking maybe I wasn't remembering correctly that it was a cham approved plant.

 

[kinyonga]

You're sure it's pothos??
Make sure you wash the plant and both sides of the leaves!

 

[Carlton]

I've also seen it listed as toxic many times but I can tell you it's been used for a very long time and I've seen veiled chameleons eat it without issues.

Many toxicity rankings you'll find for plants are based on dogs, cats, or companion birds, not herps. It also depends on how they rate toxicity (makes something sick or causing a skin reaction versus killing a pet after a mouthful...both could be rated as toxic, but its pretty subjective). So many cham keepers use Pothos if it was that harmful I'm sure we'd hear about it. There is a philodendron that looks a lot like Pothos that IS a problem. Make sure you know which you have.

 

[Tortdad]

I got it from the garden center and it's listed as pothos