You could try but you need much stronger lights.

You can ignore the UVB & A output ratings regarding your plants. That's just for the animals. Those plants can grow there if they get good additional light from the window, but they'll probably be thin and scraggly.

Since you know the Mimosa has thorns, why would you want to put in your vivarium where one of your charges could get hurt? That simply seems very unwise.

The banyan tree could make for a very cool bonsai. Much higher light is needed though you may then run into the issue of the tank getting too hot. Your banyan will likely produce aerial roots if in the terr -- the higher humidity seems to help in that regard.

I asked about the mimosa pudica because I was on www.wildsky.net and I saw a terr with mimosa pudica and dart frogs in it...

Sadly, the banyan died...oh well, I'm going to Florida next month anyway (yes I go to Fl. alot)

Here is a link that might be useful: Wildsky vivarium with mimosa pudica

The Mimosa would require a great deal of light to do well (they grow in full sun in dry areas here in the USVI) but the "banyan" might do alright. I don't know what species it is, but I've had good success with Ficus citrifolia... i glued it to the underside of an angled piece of driftwood and it immediately began wrapping roots around the driftwood and sending down aerial roots. Very exciting! I think Florida has F. citrifolia and F. aurea... both good stranglers. I would suggest looking in the cracks of old stone walls and on rooftops, etc... they like to germinate in such areas and yanking a little baby from there with some roots attached will make your life much easier.

I Have a miniature ficus benjamina(F. Benjamina "Nightingdale" plant I was thinking of putting in there- would this survive the terrarium conditions, be considered a banyan (drop aerial roots), and be able to be mounted on wood? I went to Hawk's Cay in the Keys and saw what looked like a F. Benjamina growing on a palm tree.

~Chris