almond leaves

[tacoyaki]

hey guys i've been serarching this up all day and i get nothing but millepede stuff, anyways to the point. I've made a few terrariums and i dont like the bare ground look. So i was thinking of putting dead dried up leafs on the foreground to make it feel more like a real forest. Are almond leaves okay to use for this?

 

[captmarga]

Personally, I would not use real leaf litter. Some types of leaves are toxic, and some will mold as they decay. If they have sharp veins and spines, they will irritate your T. If you must use something for deco, perhaps the coarser coconut fiber - it looks a bit like leaf-litter. Broken bits of cork would work, too, without as many molding problems.

Some people use silk or plastic plants - I have both in some of my T habitats - though there can be possible problems with them as well. I have seen threads where slings were injured in loose threads from silk plants. One of my Ts dug up my well-rooted plastic plant base and built a hammock on top of it.

My communal setup with the three P. formosas has a plastic bamboo plant and slabs of cork bark. The boys used the bamboo for webbing anchor, and their dinner (crickets) use the leaves as perches.

Marga

 

[esotericman]

To my knowledge there is nothing wrong with decorating with almond leaves, although I'd suggest more solidly built leaves. Oaks for example would work great.

 

[flamesbane]

Magnolia, sea-grape, and live oak all work great even in high humidity. I like to use all of them. They aren't much use in a terrestrials enclosure though as they will eventually be buried from burrowing/digging.