Best live plants to use for Red eyes and Amazon milks?

[JessH]

I've always used fake plants for my red eyes and I've had them for almost 2yrs now but I'd like to get some live ones. I'm also getting 2 milk frogs in October and want to use live plants for them as well.

Also, what wattage UVB should I use for the milks? I'm not even sure what wattage we're using for my red eyes. It's been the same one since we bought them and my husband did the whole set up.

[bshmerlie]

I think Pothos is the best tree frog plant. Its also almost impossible to kill...big plus in my book. There's also a great selection of some big leafy greens at Lowes and Home Depot. You want some plants that are going to give you height as well. Both of these tree frogs like a densely planed tank. They want to be able to walk from plant to plant so fill it in. Empty air space will be useless to them so think three dimensionally as you plant your tank. I use the zoo med repti glo 2.0. The lights are more for the plants than the frogs. They will be sleeping under the leaves when the lights are on. Great choices on frogs by the way.

[JessH]

A plant that's hard to kill is definitely a good thing in my book. I have a ficus plant in with my panther chameleon and I can't believe I haven't killed that yet. I guess b/c he gets misted and also has a dripper, it gets the water it needs.

My red eyes are WC and have done so well since I got them. I was going to wait until I no longer had them before getting the Amazons but I'm impatient. I'm getting them from Mike Novy (rainforest junky).

[Grrrit]

A plant that's hard to kill is definitely a good thing in my book. I have a ficus plant in with my panther chameleon and I can't believe I haven't killed that yet. I guess b/c he gets misted and also has a dripper, it gets the water it needs.

My red eyes are WC and have done so well since I got them. I was going to wait until I no longer had them before getting the Amazons but I'm impatient. I'm getting them from Mike Novy (rainforest junky).

its all his fault I got into frogs in the first place hahaaaa. I must have over looked that! Amazon milks were my first frog ever, and from him. When are you getting them? I've been helping him out a few times a week, pretty cool stuff!

[JessH]

Sorry Garrett, I didn't get any notification that you replied to my thread. I just picked them up yesterday at the Hamburg Show. I'm just trying to figure out heating for them. I have them in a 12x12x12 exo terra for now until they grow and I'm using a repti glo 5.0 uvb bulb but it's only 70 degrees in there, if that. What are your suggestions?

[michael novy]

OOW. 5.0 uvb might be a bit much... go with the 2.0 or 3.0. Best plants for red eyes in my experience are pothos and peace lillys.. Spathyphyllum. I think thats how you spell it.

[ViperJr]

A few more ideas on plants from another thread with the same subject, although pothos are my favorite as well.

Bromeliads: Air plants, so they do not need to be planted in the soil, but can be placed in the background or anywhere.

Snake plants: Extremly sturdy plants that provide excellent sleeping places.

Creeping fig: Grows alot and provide alot of climbing space against a side of a the tank.

Ficus: Some have alot of small plants, other have fewer really big sturdy plants.

"Lucky bamboo": It's not bamboo, but it's usually named that anyway. The look nice and provide nice vertical climbing area.

[JWells]

Huge fan of the snake plant and pothos. Easy to find, hard to kill, they are staples in my treefrog enclosures. If you can get something goin horizontally, that would be ideal. Maybe some bamboo...

Also, milkies spend at lot of time in treeholes in the wild ( in fact, it's the where they breed as well) so you might want to try and simulate that with some cork bark or something similar.

Smaller or younger treefrogs definitely appreciate a bromeliad. Plus there's no better photo than a frog tucked between brom axils!

[JessH]

Where can I get these plants? I've seen them for sale online but if I can get them at place near me, I'd obviously prefer that.

[ViperJr]

Both pothos and snake plant are available everywhere they sell ordinary indoor plants. Not unusual to see them at the local supermarket as well.

[JWells]

Yeah, home depot, lowes, nurseries, etc. The bromeliads are usually more difficult to find, you may have order them online, although they do show up at the home improvement stores occasionally.