Safe live plants for a Bull Snake.

[spyderman]

I have a 1.0 Bull Snake. I have had a 4ft x 2ft x 2ft Vivarium built for him. I want to have some live plants in his Viv. What plants would be safe & what soil would be safe to grow these plants in his Viv????

[Zoe]

I would go with Pothos plants in peatmoss/top soil (with none of the white thingies) mix.

Zoe

[Bryce Masuk]

Pothos is a good vine if you want vines
rubber plant and spider plants are good hardy plants that look good

as for the white thingies its called perlite I wouldnt worry about perlite though if your feeding F/T. what you have to worry about is pestacides in the soil.
I usually use vermiculight for soil because it retains moisture for a long time and I forget to water plants and it has nothing in it but the rock itself

[Edwin]

From my experience, pothos is probably one of the few plants that can withstand the 'rough love' of your snakes.

[Linds]

I agree with Zoe and Edwin that Pothos are great. They are a sturdy plant that takes abuse better than most, and grows great in terrariums ;)

Click <a href="http://www.bmts.com/~csz/MingsExoticZoo/Mingsnontoxicplants.html#common">here</a> for a list of safe plants.

[Hamster of Borg]

While I agree with the plant suggestions... my bullsnakes routinely trash their cages, I don't think they are a snake particularly well suited to setting up with live plants, especially since you'll probably need to actually put pots in the cage. Setting up an entire vivarium with a moist substrate suitable for plants would not be very suitable for a bullsnake. Certainly can't hurt to try, but I wouldn't be surprised if the snake made a big mess. :)

Ham

[spyderman]

Are there any Hanging plants that I can use? We have decided that because Ekans likes to move her things about so much, that if we grew trailing plants on top of her Viv' & drilled a few holes in the back of her Viv' & put the vines through the holes, that it would be safer & cleaner & It would hide the plain wood background of the Viv. Any thoughts?