My Exo Terra 18x18x24 background with waterfall

[beckdg]

i would think that pothos would do well wet. i have some pothos growing in my fish tank. i actually killed most of it and just took a couple 2 or 3 node pieces of vine with no roots (only one had a leaf left) and tossed them just under the water. they're growing roots pretty good and both have leafs shooting out of the water as we speak. TOUGH PLANTS!

btw... i have no idea what it took to kill them but they were subjected to a 180 deg F. room for about 14 hours... and that was sufficient...

[Calebrez]

Wow beck either you were having a barbeque or you really go through a lot to see what the flash point of plants are! Haha do I sense a hidden piro amongst us? Haha jk

[froggsong]

lmao...

I'd have to come out of the closet on the pyro front myself. oooooooo pretty fire!

The pothos will do well wet or dry. It will shoot roots where it needs to in order to grow. It WILL attach itself to your BG too, btw. My mother had a living pothos border around the top of the kitchen for years. We attached just a bit of it (maybe a foot out on either plant) around the ceiling, and it grew all the way around the room and then overlapped. It was awesome. Too bad I don't have pics of it.

The brom won't do well with wet feet, so mount it somewhere that doesn't have running water.

From my reading, the wandering jew should stay moist, but not wet.

From what I gather, the pilea should be allowed to dry between waterings.

I think the pep needs fairly well draining soil, but I could be wrong on that one... I had a few of them that did VERY well in my CWD tank when she had a water dish instead of a FB and the soil dried out fairly regularly. They didn't do so well when moved to a wetter soil.

That fern is going to be way too big for your tank. You'll have to save it for another project.

[Calebrez]

Haha very true froggsong. I think we all have a lil bit of piro in us haha my brother last week was so amazed at how flammable dryer lint combined with starting fluid was! Haha but yes pothos will grow just about anywhere!

[xsputnikx]

ok beckbd and frogsong I thank you both for the info... I am going to be putting 2 leucs in there the main reason for doing this vivarium besides im hooked on building them now is to seperate my 5 frogs that have lived together long enough now.. I have 3 auratus also.. and I also have plans of getting a few more species... I think im moving on to azeureus for my next tank

[beckdg]

sputnik... no problem

calebrez... i have a friend who has a friend who's an idiot.
friends friend lived in a place infected with bed bugs... moved and treated nothing.
friend visited his friend and unknowingly transferred them everywhere... my house, his parents house, other friends houses...
we had no clue what they were and so the epidemic multiplied to a bad scenario.
i have access to professional chemicals, consulting and training as well as my brother moonlighted as an exterminator for quite some time.
i had done 5 whole house treatments as well as covered beds, washed and dried everything we owned made of cloth or with small crevices, taped some things up, caulked some things up, powder everywhere, priced out co2 for bombing the whole house, etc..
it was getting ridiculous even though the death toll was enormous. i decided to heat treat the entire house (keep the entire house over 120* F for over 1/2 hour).

i had a 165,000 btu torpedo heater going for 16 hours to get the temp up. also industrial fans, heaters, oven, drier rigged to work open, etc., etc.. since the heater would sense incoming heat and shut off i had to direct the input in front of an open sliding glass door. we bought and bagged up (i think) 162 pounds of ice and ran in and out of the house every 3 minutes to float new bags in the aquariums... horrendous experience!

on the bright side my kids and wife no longer have unexplained rashes that i was beating myself up trying to cure.

through all this my kids were living somewhere else and everything we owned was in the back yard covered with tarps. needless to say lives have been threatened if i ever were to go through that again. at one point my son was in danger of having to repeat kindergarten... after having a near flawless year!

friends friend got a quote on a 30% or 40% off deal for their entire house of $1200 and they have half as many rooms and about 1/3 the square footage as we do. the only guarantee they got for that price is that they would come back to inspect a month later. i may have spent close to $1000 total (including gas, eating out for a while, new clothes to get everybody through a couple days, replacing a couple kid chairs and minor things, etc.), but everything is under control now.

i am honestly very happy that i have my account at jon don and some friends/acquaintances that have lots of knowledge in that area. we would be another couple thousand dollars in the hole as well as replacing water beds, space foam beds, pillow tops and bunk beds with serta mattresses in them (the list goes on) if i didn't.

we came out on top overall, really. i don't ever want to do that again though. horrendous experience, just horrendous... and talk about feeling dirty and ashamed. sooo dirty, sooo nasty... and the little buggers look just like roaches. on top of that we had a new baby beardie and the arrival of a b. dubia colony right in the middle of all of it. talk about baaaad timing.

i am getting long winded and the heeby jeebies at the same time so i'll end that right there, but yeah... the one thermometer that still worked conked out at 185* F... and we had a long time to go before things were finished.

[eddyplaner]

Hi beck

sorry to hear you and your family had been feeding that pest at your home.

wow you really sound so profeesional, can i hire you to exterminate pests at my home?

[beckdg]

if you can get me there i'll do it for free.

[xsputnikx]

Lol.... this sounds dangerous

[beckdg]

it is...