Potted plants and WTF? Also spanish moss.

[deranged chipmunk]

I've grown sheet moss in my white's tank a few years ago, but the first time I thought I saw one swallow some, I yanked it in favor of leaf litter. I know they can't swallow one of them! Lol I prefer sheet moss for smaller frogs like darts or mantellas. Besides, leaf litter is what they would encounter in the wild anyway.
Cushion moss is a real pain. It grows ridiculously slow, and you have to be very patient with it. Normally what happens is you put it in, then spore pods appear, then die, then the moss "dies" off and people rip it out because it's ugly. But if you are patient and leave it alone, in about a year, it will be beautiful again. Downside is waiting a year with ugliness in the tank. Lol


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[irThumper]

I've grown sheet moss in my white's tank a few years ago, but the first time I thought I saw one swallow some, I yanked it in favor of leaf litter. I know they can't swallow one of them! Lol I prefer sheet moss for smaller frogs like darts or mantellas. Besides, leaf litter is what they would encounter in the wild anyway.
Cushion moss is a real pain. It grows ridiculously slow, and you have to be very patient with it. Normally what happens is you put it in, then spore pods appear, then die, then the moss "dies" off and people rip it out because it's ugly. But if you are patient and leave it alone, in about a year, it will be beautiful again. Downside is waiting a year with ugliness in the tank. Lol


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela

What kind of leaf litter is good for the WTFs and where do I get some? How often should it be changed out?

That's funny that cushion moss grows so slow in the viv! We had some that started growing on our sidewalk next to the down spout last fall, and by spring it would have made a decent amount for at least a 10+ gal tank... then all the rain went away and we wound up with a heat wave that doomed it. There is still a little dried up club by the neighbors that no one bothered to scrape up, I plan to watch to see if it comes back to life when it starts to rain. I want to put together a test terrarium and see if I can duplicate growing conditions to make it grow... not going to put a hunk of concrete in there though, lol. Another thing the stuff loves around here is old rotting three-tab roofing, not going to put that in my tank either Might try some kind of wood, but I would want to scrape the moss off it and transfer it to the tank, not the wood.