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    Keister
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    Default Recommendations for center piece plants for dart frog Viv.

    I am looking for some more center piece style plants for the background of my Viv. By center piece plants I mean I want something that stands out from the rest of my plants. The only real restrictions I have on plant choice is they need to be able to do well in a dart frog Viv. I have two jungle dawn LEDs so lighting isn't an issue. I am open to any and all recommendations! I just want my Viv to look good! I have a stag horn fern already so that one is out. Thanks in advance!

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    Default Re: Recommendations for center piece plants for dart frog Viv.

    Check out tillandsia albertiana. It's a funky looking air plant, does great in Vivs and flowers bright red.

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    Are you looking for just epiphytes? If so, Dischidia hirsuta 'Red Leaf', Dischidia ovata, some of the brighter mini Neoregelias
    If you include stuff that will vine up a background, Monstera krassiana, Philodendron 'Ecuador', Philodendron 'Burle Marx Fantasy' Rhaphidophora cryptantha, Monstera dubia, Macrgrevia rectifolia or 'Suriname'

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    Ya I am open to anything I have four pots to fill on my background and I am just looking for something to fill them that looks nice. Maybe something with broad leaves or something. I saw in a video what looked like a big pale redish brown bromeliad with wide leaves and I really liked that a lot not sure what it was so I am on a search to find it. Like I said I am open to anything as long as it looks nice. I have a purple creeping Jew as a vine already but it wouldn't hurt to have more!

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    If you're going to do broms, I would just mount them to the background as they can rot, use the embedded pots for trailing plants.

    Some good colored vivarium sized Neoregelias (I'm sure I'll think of more later, this is a partial list)

    Red- Fireball (of course), Red Bird, Red Wolf, Sara Head
    Orange/Peach- Tuti Fruiti, Devin's Delight, BAM
    Purple- Arenada, Purple Star x dungsiana, Grapevine, Caviar, Java Plum
    Yellow/Lime Green- punctatissima 'Yellow', Babe
    Green with additional color/banding- Flare Up, Midget, Tiger Cub, Babe, dungsiana, Pepper, Red Dot, ampullacea cultivars, Night Spot, Small Fry

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    Quote Originally Posted by BonnieLorraine View Post
    If you're going to do broms, I would just mount them to the background as they can rot, use the embedded pots for trailing plants.

    Some good colored vivarium sized Neoregelias (I'm sure I'll think of more later, this is a partial list)

    Red- Fireball (of course), Red Bird, Red Wolf, Sara Head
    Orange/Peach- Tuti Fruiti, Devin's Delight, BAM
    Purple- Arenada, Purple Star x dungsiana, Grapevine, Caviar, Java Plum
    Yellow/Lime Green- punctatissima 'Yellow', Babe
    Green with additional color/banding- Flare Up, Midget, Tiger Cub, Babe, dungsiana, Pepper, Red Dot, ampullacea cultivars, Night Spot, Small Fry
    Awesome and thanks for those! I'll see what I can get! All the bromiliads will be mounted to the two logs I have on the background, so I won't have to mont them to the background itself. I really just want this to have that full jungle look to it. I want it to be consumed in plants while not just being an overgrown mess if you know what I mean hahaha.

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    Can I get an Id for this plant please?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keister View Post
    Can I get an Id for this plant please?

    Aechmea fasciata

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    Quote Originally Posted by exasperatus2002 View Post
    Aechmea fasciata
    Awesome thankyou! I really love the look of this plant and think it might be a nice addition to my viv!

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    They're huge (about 2 feet tall), and incredibly spiny, I gash my arms on them regularly at work, might want to find something a bit smaller and less pokey >.<

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    Quote Originally Posted by BonnieLorraine View Post
    They're huge (about 2 feet tall), and incredibly spiny, I gash my arms on them regularly at work, might want to find something a bit smaller and less pokey >.<
    Oh wow ok I don't want a two foot tall plant in there with spines of death hahaha I'll find something else hahaha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keister View Post
    Oh wow ok I don't want a two foot tall plant in there with spines of death hahaha I'll find something else hahaha.
    Frog skewers anyone? Yeah, beautiful plant but its a beast.

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    Hahaha true any other recommendations?

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    Default Re: Recommendations for center piece plants for dart frog Viv.

    potos(hope I'm spelling that right) and creeping fig are cool plants haven't had much luck growing creeping fig tho they grow a lot tho so be carefull

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    There is a ficus from panama that would trail nicely from a planter high in the viv. I ha e a few others in mind. I can post some links tonight.

    Btw, you do know that staghorn is going to grow into a monster, right?
    1.0.0 Oophaga Pumilio 'Black Jeans'
    0.0.10 Phyllobates Vittatus
    0.0.3 Phyllobates Terribilis 'Mint'
    0.0.3 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Patricia'
    0.0.5 Dendrobates Leucomelas
    0.0.2 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Powder Blue'
    0.0.2 Ranitomeya Variabilis 'southern'
    0.0.3 Epipedobates Anthonyi 'zarayunga'
    1.2.0 Phyllobates bicolor
    0.0.3 Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus'
    0.0.1 Avicularia Avicularia
    0.0.1 Gramastola porteri
    0.2.0 Canines
    1.0.0 Tabby/Maine Coon Mix
    2.1.0 Genetics Experiments
    0.1.0 Bed Bully

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    Quote Originally Posted by deranged chipmunk View Post
    There is a ficus from panama that would trail nicely from a planter high in the viv. I ha e a few others in mind. I can post some links tonight.

    Btw, you do know that staghorn is going to grow into a monster, right?
    Awesome thankyou! Also yes I do hahaha I will let it get as big as it can in the Viv and then I will relocate it out of the Viv into a much larger pot as not to kill it. I just like them a lot so I figured I would start one in the Viv. So yes I do and I have a plan for it after it outgrows the Viv.

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    Here's the ficus i.spoke of : Catalog

    And that staghorn will look really cool mounted on a piece of cork bark after it our grows the viv.
    1.0.0 Oophaga Pumilio 'Black Jeans'
    0.0.10 Phyllobates Vittatus
    0.0.3 Phyllobates Terribilis 'Mint'
    0.0.3 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Patricia'
    0.0.5 Dendrobates Leucomelas
    0.0.2 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Powder Blue'
    0.0.2 Ranitomeya Variabilis 'southern'
    0.0.3 Epipedobates Anthonyi 'zarayunga'
    1.2.0 Phyllobates bicolor
    0.0.3 Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus'
    0.0.1 Avicularia Avicularia
    0.0.1 Gramastola porteri
    0.2.0 Canines
    1.0.0 Tabby/Maine Coon Mix
    2.1.0 Genetics Experiments
    0.1.0 Bed Bully

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    Default Re: Recommendations for center piece plants for dart frog Viv.

    Quote Originally Posted by deranged chipmunk View Post
    Here's the ficus i.spoke of : Catalog

    And that staghorn will look really cool mounted on a piece of cork bark after it our grows the viv.
    Ya that's exactly what I was planning in doing with it actually!

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