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Posted by avic (My Page) on Fri, Feb 23, 07 at 12:35
| I have a 75 g tank that is the home of my Hermit Crab colony. The Hermits need 75 to 80 Humidity to live. I want to add plants to the tank. I am planning to build the 3d wall like at Black Jungle but without the water works since the crabs are land crabs not marine. Anyway I need some idea of plants that will live in that humidity range temps are also 75 to 80ish. Ground substraite will be EE and Sand mix. Wall will be Drift wood 3d Expanding foam covered with EE and moss. I pretty much only want the plants on the wall not on the floor of the terrarium.
Thank for the help. |
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RE: High Humidity Terraruim Plants
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| This site has a good listing of plants. You will have to become a member though in order to view this link. I'm still trying to make decisions on plants as well, and am having a very hard time. I'm also having a hard time deciding on a misting system and how I'm going to dim my low voltage fans. I've gotten so much conflicting information on this, that I'm now totally confused. Some say you can dim them, some say you can't and no matter how many links I read, I don't understand how to wire the suckers. I'm totally clueless when it comes to electrical 'anything'. At the moment I feel like giving up on this whole idea, and sticking with my current setup. BTW, I also have hermit crabs, 2 PPs and 3 Es. CrabbyOne |
Here is a link that might be useful: 32 pages of vivarium plants
Another link
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| Sorry, here's the 32 page link, the above one is just 5 pages. |
Here is a link that might be useful: lots of plants
RE: High Humidity Terraruim Plants
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| I thought hermit crabs loved to tear up and eat plants... that's the only reason I never kept any crabs in planted vivariums- and I can't stand plastic plants no matter how "realistic" they are... Looks like I need to do some homework! |
RE: High Humidity Terraruim Plants
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| They do tear up plants, that's why it's so difficult to choose them. You have to find something that's tough, that can handle being climbed on and that is relatively fast growing and possibly branchy so that it can handle being chewed on without dying. And you have to make sure that they're safe to eat because the crabs will certainly taste them. You also have to choose plants that are salt tolerant, as you need a salt water pond for the crabs as well. I've been researching this for the past 3 months or so, and I think that once I finally decide on the plant species I want, I'll have a terrible time finding them as they will very likely not be highly available. Mangroves, peperomia and irish moss are the only plants that I've decided on so far - these should be relatively easy to find. I still think that this may be a bad idea all around. Sherry |
RE: High Humidity Terraruim Plants
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| The only plants (mentioned) that Ive seen around the hermit crabs wild habitat was mangroves, and I noticed not to many hermit crabs in the area of the mangroves? Ive seen the most on the beaches at night, hundreds! they go out onto the beach and scavange for goodies =) then, come sun up, they go back to their hiding places, little borrows and even under leaves, they hide just about under anything =)Ill look in my pics and see if I got any of the wild plant life in the pics =) |
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