Ok, my Tree Frog enclosure has a fake vine that my frogs love and a small part of a branch that they always sit on. I put in a real peice of bark in too for them to hide under as well. I have a little tub of water that I bought. Since its a glass enclosure, there's a styrafoam rock on the back wall. I put in regular dirt that was from outside in that had stones, roots, grubs, etc. I try getting out the grubs and what-not so that I won't have any dead things in the enclosure. I clean it atleast once a week and I have a mister. I feed them crickets and mealworms that I either find or buy and they seem to be warm and happy for the most part. The only problem is that I don't put plants in their enclosures because they always seem to die for one reason or another. I have 6 Grey Tree Frogs and I have 2 fairly large enclosures for them, like I said before, they seem happy and alwasys are usually green instead of grey, I don't know what that means to them though. I don't thing they mind not having plants in there and I hate the fake plants. Should I be putting plants in there or are they ok the way they are? Also, I don't have a temperature or humid rate/tester thing in the enclosures. What I'm trying to say is, you knowing how I set up the enclosures, is what I'm doing going to effect anything my frogs do? I want to do the most I can for them...
I'm sure this will help you.
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They really do need plants. Tree frogs love to climb leaf to leaf. You could try a nice philodendron. They're easy to grow and have nice vine-like stems you can twist up and across the top. I had a hard time with plants too. If you have florescent lighting in the room or use a GE 6500 26watt build in a dimmer lamp, that will work too. You'll need to rinse and discard all fertilizer and then replant without any fertilizer. You can either plant right into your bottom, or (even easier) plant into a small plastic potter and then bury into into the soil. I do that with my vivarium plants that like it a bit drier. Snake plants are really hardy too. They like it more on the dry side, so the potter method works well for them. I plant my snake plants in unfertilized 100% ground up peat moss because it retains water less than coco fiber substrate (which is the floor in my viv's). I push the frog poo into the soil at my plant roots when I see it to feed my plants. Works great .
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Here are a few more plant ideas. Enjoy!
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Holy cow, that was a long paragraph. I should have broke it up a bit. Sorry about that .
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Haha its ok, thank you very much. I'll look into the philodendron plants!
I printed off the plant list and take it with me to the local green house. Then they help me to find what I need since I don't have all of the plants memorized yet. Tropicals are what you need, so they can tolerate the warm temps and high humidity levels.
Donlisk gave me great lists of plants in the past, and he is the "master" vivarium creator . If you need help in setting anything up, he is your man. I learned from him and some others here.
Scroll through the vivarium and terrarium sections here and I bet your imagination will start running away with awesome ideas. I like to google web search for tropical images for ideas then try to create ideas from what I see. I made my first waterfall that way.
Have fun!
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You're welcome
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