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[Jamesbish05]

Hi there,

I'm new to this site, so hope ive put this in the correct place. I'm currently setting up my new vivarium. I'm making a styrofoam background for it. My question is a bit of a strange one, when I visited this site earlier, I noticed the banner at the top of this website..I love the look of the plant that is covering the rock that the blue frog is sitting on, and would love to put some on some of the rocks on my background I'm making.

I would really appreciate if anyone knows what this plant is called or if they know of a similar looking plant?

Many thanks in advance
James

[froggsong]

hmmm... If it's a picture of real plants, it might be a type of moss. I'm so tired my eyes can't focus well anymore, lol... Moss would definitely give you that look, though.

[Jamesbish05]

Cheers for the reply mate, I was thinking it was moss, do you know if it would be safe to have it in a viv with bearded dragons. The artificial moss just doesn't look as good!

[Grimm]

Beardies need temps and humidity levels well out of the range that mosses can grow in. You will need a more tropical setup of you want REAL moss growth.

[froggsong]

A tropical setup housing a tropical species, to be exact.

Actually, most mosses do better in temperate vives. Something like a salamander, newt, pacific tree frog, and other northern species of tree frog will need conditions that mosses will thrive in.

There are mosses that can adapt to warmer conditions in a tropical vive though, so that further opens your options for a moss carpeted vive.

[Jamesbish05]

I was thinking of just glueing the moss to the styrofoam, only problem is the moss will probably turn brown. I may have to look into artificial alternatives.

[froggsong]

If you get the right kind of moss and keep it wet so that it doesn't dry out for too long and don't let it get too hot, it should do just fine.