apocalypse910
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So I have the sudden urge to replant the enclosure again... I'm sure he'll destroy everything again in short order. I have found one plant that has been able to survive and that is a ponytail palm - he spends most of his time lounging underneath it and seems to love the cover it provides. I have a fairly good ecosystem going in the tank with a cleanup crew of isopods, spring tails, and worms.
I'm also going to re-install his waterfall now that he's calmed down a bit - He seems to drink more when he has running water and I'm going to add a filter so he has access to constant running fresh water.
I usually obsess for ages before putting a new plant in the enclosure - and after seeing it listed on a bunch of safe plant lists I ordered some creeping figs (oak leaf). Now I'm seeing the same plant listed on a few of the toxic lists as well.
Can anyone weigh in on these? My usually trusted site says they are safe - and I know they are edible to humans... at the same time a few sites list them as unsafe. Anyone have something concrete one way or the other? I generally want to play it very safe but these are listed on sites I generally trust - and the internet is an echo chamber with a lot of misinformation that gets blindly copied from care sheet to care-sheet. I suspect this may be a result of the "possible dermatitis" warning that half the plants on earth seem to have. Any ideas? I know I gave the opposite advice the other day on the avocado discussion but I can't find any record of creeping fig being dangerous (cross species)...
http://www.anapsid.org/pdf/plantlists.txt
I'm also going to re-install his waterfall now that he's calmed down a bit - He seems to drink more when he has running water and I'm going to add a filter so he has access to constant running fresh water.
I usually obsess for ages before putting a new plant in the enclosure - and after seeing it listed on a bunch of safe plant lists I ordered some creeping figs (oak leaf). Now I'm seeing the same plant listed on a few of the toxic lists as well.
Can anyone weigh in on these? My usually trusted site says they are safe - and I know they are edible to humans... at the same time a few sites list them as unsafe. Anyone have something concrete one way or the other? I generally want to play it very safe but these are listed on sites I generally trust - and the internet is an echo chamber with a lot of misinformation that gets blindly copied from care sheet to care-sheet. I suspect this may be a result of the "possible dermatitis" warning that half the plants on earth seem to have. Any ideas? I know I gave the opposite advice the other day on the avocado discussion but I can't find any record of creeping fig being dangerous (cross species)...
http://www.anapsid.org/pdf/plantlists.txt
