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[Mememe]

Just wanted to reccommend this species of plant for small vivariums. I have been through and killed many quite expensive plants until I found this one! It grows phenomenally quickly, even in quite a dark enclosure, with nothing other than ambient light. It also flowers, which is a nice touch, even if - like me - you prefer foliage.

The dartfrog description:
'Easily grown, attractive plant that either creeps up a cork or coco panel backdrop or hangs down to provide cover. This the small leaf variety so-called because it can grown up to an inch (25mm) per day. Pinch the new shoots regularly to provide a wonderfully lush backdrop.. Price is for 3 x rooted cuttings' £1.99

I used two of these rooted cuttings (The other is growing a pot, and will have cuttings taken for hatchling chameleons), and as you can see below, they have pretty much colonised the whole 12" by 12" by 12" viv in about a month. The pothos, though doing well, hasn't grown nearly as much. At 1.99 from DF, it's cheap too! Though it grows fast, it isn't particularly invasive, and can be trimmed easily.

I would reccommend for very small chameleons (stem just the right length) and any other light-weight climbing species, e.g., it could look nice at the back of a small dartfrog enclosure. Not reccommended for tall vivariums unless you are using it to hang down (as the stems not strong enough to climb) or heavy animals.

Flower:


Vivarium:


The happy owner of the viv:


And a jealous roommate :

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[Kioka]

Wandering Jew are nice. You can find them at any gardening store. The problem is that it take over your house quite quickly. I keep one as a houseplant in a room and by the end of the year it managed to circulate the entire room.

I have that thing for about 8 years now, and I have to trim it every 2 weeks. That thing grow at about 2 or 3 inches a day. I don't water it and I haven't replaced the pot soil since 5 years ago.

I never cut the shootings off of it so I can put it in a vivarium. I have cut shootings for other herp-keepers and they hated it. Even when they got rid of it, shoots can be found elsewhere. The only way they could get rid of it was to start all over again; so they just learn to let it invade the background and just clip back when it approach the foreground.

[Cleef]

I used this plant in my planted viv, I'm not too keen on it really. It does grow very well, too well almost . I don't like the look of it that much as mine has quite a 'straggly' appearance, it just grows really fast, long stems, not as much foliage as I thought there would be. I snipped the ends off some of the shoots in hope of getting it to bush out a bit, but it didn't really work

For a quick bit of hardy greenery though, it's great
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[Mememe]

How dark is your vivarium. Perhaps it was climbing to reach light?
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