How Long Should You Wait?

[deranged chipmunk]

The size and age really depend on the plant. But just as general info, mature plants will acclimate faster than juveniles, obviously, and clippings will need to root first before they can fully establish themselves. But all plants will need to acclimate to their new environment, just like the frogs will. For instance, when going from the relative humidity of indoors to say, a dart frog tank with 90%+ humidity, plants like ferns tend to die off and then regrow. But like I said, a lot depends on the species.


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[flybyferns]

Plus... you want the 'bad stuff' to grow out of the plants ! ie pesticides, fertilizers, leaf polishers.
Unless of course, you have done that already.

I prep the plant 1st: dump the soil it came in/ rinse in thoroughly (more often than not give it a bleach dip/ leaves, roots and all/then soak the entire plant in de-chlorinated water ) This is especially important for the plants from the big box stores. Re-pot it in a clean container to grow out .

I agree---- about a month or so.

PS
All frogs need a QT period:
In the mean time ............you can still get your frogs......they can start their QT period while your enclosures is getting comfortable. And you can get to know your frogs while they are in the QT environment ---> be sure they are well and eating.

This is especially true for froglets ; and 100 % necessary for all PDFs. You want to witness them eating their food.

for example:
- you may want to train a tree frog to bowl feed in QT
or
-you want to make sure a young dart frog has transitioned ,well, from sprintails to fruit flies--- witnessed ---while in QT

http://www.frogforum.net/general-dis...uarantine.html

What species are you planing to house?

[Mentat]

Agree with others in the month settling down period for plants; but would like to make a note. If your plants come from a source that used pesticides or strong fertilizers in them; transplant upon purchase to new soil and grow out in for a couple weeks to leach out the chemicals before rinsing out all soil again and transplanting to vivarium. Good luck !

[LilyPad]

I forgot to throw in the issue of pesticides and fertilizers. When I moved my grey tree frogs immediately back into their viv after redoing it, none of the plants were *new.* They were either all old plants from the viv or plants moved from other (unoccupied) vivs, so no risk of pesticides or fertilizers there.

[AlexanderSalamander]

Great feedback, I'm planning on WTF's about four of em'