Plants

[DonLisk]

Remember to call ahead before heading out as Black Jungle does a lot of shows and might not be there.

Thanks Kurt, I'm gonna try for this Saturday.
I'll call in advance too.
It will make for a nice road trip for me and my wife.

[clownonfire]

Don, have you worked a bit on your plants after this thread? As your viv must be my favorite one (sorry, everyone else...), I'm curious to see if you made any modifications.

Have you ever used moss too? Or try to attach some on wood? I'll attempt this today while planting the plants to mine.

[DonLisk]

Don, have you worked a bit on your plants after this thread? As your viv must be my favorite one (sorry, everyone else...), I'm curious to see if you made any modifications.

Have you ever used moss too? Or try to attach some on wood? I'll attempt this today while planting the plants to mine.

Hi Eric,
The only thing I've done so far is trim back some of the creeping fig and trim off anything that seemed be dieing off. This helped the plants a lot and most are doing well.
One issue I have is my misting system does not get everywhere it needs to so every few days I have to hand mist areas.

I want to change up and get one to two more Broms but need smaller. If Black Jungle is open today I might attempt the 3 plus hour trip. (one way)

Thanks for the comments too. I really like this viv, but I have to say, I get jealous of all the ones with a water feature.
The dart seems to like his new home too. I find him everywhere so that pretty cool.

[DonLisk]

I haven't tried moss to wood but my first though was to hot glue the pieve of wood and then place the sheet of moss over it. I would only do a line of glue here ad there so the moss can actually be touching the wood with most of the bottom sheet.
Also, thought that using fishing line would be fine since once you know its attached itself you can clip the line and remove it.

[clownonfire]

3-hour trip, huh? Wow, that is dedication my friend. The more I read about misters, the more I'm tempted by the Mist King, because of the amount of nozzles you can potentially add... Although there's a Monsoon on special not too far from me...

We're getting plants today, and the creeping fig is on the menu. I hope I find some...

And there's no need to feel envious about any other viv (although http://www.frogforum.net/members/mikem670.html's is also the bomb). Honestly, yours looks beautiful and well suited for your yellow dart.

[DonLisk]

Thanks. Yeah, 3 hours isn't bad if we catch a sunny day (like today) and catch a nice dinner on the way back.
I mainly want to grab another yellow dart and see if they have spare add on nozzles for the Monsoon. Thats the main issue so far, a splitter and adding nozzles.
I talked to my local dealer and they were going to check with the rep.

Mist King you get from Mist King so you know where to get nozzles.

Good luck with the plants today. Your back ground looks awesome.

[bshmerlie]

Yeah...what's a little 3 hour drive when it comes to frogs?

[MikeM670]

I just ordered two types of Creeping Fig off off Ebay. I could not find any local.

Creeping Fig Plant - Ficus pumila - 3" Pot

Mini Oakleaf Creeping Fig -Terrarium/Topi​ary/HousePlant

[DonLisk]

Don, have you worked a bit on your plants after this thread? As your viv must be my favorite one (sorry, everyone else...), I'm curious to see if you made any modifications.

Have you ever used moss too? Or try to attach some on wood? I'll attempt this today while planting the plants to mine.

Well, the plants in the viv have gone nuts so I just cut some back last night.
The Creeping fig is going across the back of the viv as hoped but has also gone in many other directions.

Hypoestes Polka Dot has grown to the top glass and I cut that way back. I'm hoping it will stay lower and spread mor across the bottom.

The Lemon Button is doing awesome and has covered most of the stump it was planted into. I trimmed some of that back also.

The Cryptanthus is looking great and the pup that was buried in with the larger plants has finally sprouted new growth from the center. (Fig was beginning to grow over it so that was trimmed)
Viv is looking great as are the darts its home too.


Hows the new viv there? Once spring comes I may collect some local moss and try moving some into a viv to see how it takes.