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11-25-04, 03:36 PM
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Live plants safe for crested
Hello! Can anyone give me some suggestions on live plants that are safe for crested geckos? I can find general lizard info on the net, but would love some suggestions from those who have crested geckos.
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11-25-04, 03:39 PM
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Try pothos plants...they're my favourite, they grow fast and I have one in every crestie enclosure 
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11-25-04, 04:01 PM
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A friend of mine uses bamboo.
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Last edited by CDN-Cresties; 11-25-04 at 04:09 PM..
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11-25-04, 04:03 PM
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Thanks for the great suggestions!!
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11-25-04, 04:28 PM
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Here is a list of ones that are easy to keep with a mere fluorescent light, and will do well with a crested:
Pothos
Philodendron
Peace lily
Large Calatheas
Elephant ear plant
You can get good sized plants of these types at Home Depot for around or less than ten dollars.
Good luck
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11-25-04, 04:38 PM
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Is any type flourescent light good for growing plants? Or those "grow bulbs" ???
I know nothing about using artificial light but soon I will be setting up a crested enclosure with live plants.
Marisa
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11-25-04, 04:42 PM
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Those grow bulbs are nuts...they work. I use the UVB lights in my enclosures, and when I don't have them the plants are certainly less vibrant
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11-25-04, 06:31 PM
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I use G.E Grow and Show bright sticks. they are inexpensive, come together as a unit and work great for my plants.
My favourtie plants for cresteds are snake plants, golden pothos, joesphs coat, and weeping figs.
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11-25-04, 06:42 PM
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This is a question for those who use live plants. Do your cresties lay their eggs within the soil? or do they use a nest box?
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11-25-04, 07:24 PM
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Mine prefer to use their nest boxes full of moist coco fiber over the potting soil. However my one female did surprise me by laying her 5th clutch in one of the pots. But she wasn't able to dig deep because of the roots. Either way it doesn't really matter because it's pretty obvious when they are poking around for a good spot to lay. They test the soil with their snouts.
I received my seventh fertile clutch yesterday.
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11-25-04, 07:44 PM
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Cool, im thinking about having a really nice display tank in the near future and was just wondering about it. Some of my females make the biggest mess with their nest box while others are so subtle its hard to notice.
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11-25-04, 07:54 PM
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Cool The plants rerally help with the humidity too. All the plants listed do really well in crestie tanks.
I was just wondering you know those 82lt totes you got from canadian tire, what are the dimensions? I need to get a couple. When I was looking online at the rubbermaids I had the height mixed up with the width.
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11-25-04, 08:20 PM
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The dimensions are 24"X18"X15". They're actually 80lt.
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11-25-04, 08:24 PM
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sounds good,
I wish they made bins with a good height!
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11-25-04, 08:26 PM
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Yeah true but i find that with my egg trays, theres plenty of room for my geckos to climb and hide.
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