Fertilizing your plants?

[nos187]

Do you fertilize your plants in your vivariums? If so with what?

Thanks guys =)

[DonLisk]

The plants receive fertilization from the frogs waste, uneaten insects, and break down of the leaves that decay on the substrate.

Fertilizers would be absorbed by the frogs and cause problems including death.

There may be organic ways to fertilize and someone should comment on those possibilities.

[nos187]

that's exactly what i was thinking don, thanks. So for your vivariums you do not use any type of fertilizers besides the wastes? Im curious to what type of organic fertilizers would be frog friendly. Thanks guys

[DonLisk]

Kevin, I don't anything, but I do feed my dart frogs flies which wander off and die and the same with the springtails in the viv.

All my vivs have leaf liter which also helps the plants as it deteriorates.
My RETF and dart vivs are out of control in growth so I won't be changing anything unless something changes and the plants take a turn the other direction.

[nos187]

awesome! im not even going to worry about it then.. thank you!

[Leefrogs]

Don and I had this coversation a while back. I am a plant junky, and always concerned with their health as well. Wood ash disolved in water is probably the safest. The other one I thaught of would be bone meal or fish emushion. All these would be in water and added to roots. Not watered on top.

[ZachTurner]

To mainly keep a few of the Orchids in our vivariums Happy and going nuts We use a little Organic "worm casting Tea".. Its great stuff

[nos187]

thanks for all the input guys =)