Any suggestions?

[MissSkittles]

Your tank is so pretty . my tank has soil already because I planted the plants inside the dirt so make them easier to grow, so there's clay balls which soak up some of the water from the soil and then refeed the soil so I don't have to water them, I'm removing the lucky bean plant like you said, but is it a huge deal that there's soil?

If you are going to have any soil on the floor, then you want to go fully bioactive. This is a great guide to setting up bioactive. https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/intro-to-bio-activity.2429/ The drainage layer is essential, as is having a clean up crew of springtails and isopods. The soil and its amendments can be done in varied ways, but the drainage and clean up crew must be done right. I use root pouches to contain my soil. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Root-Po...Pots-with-Handles-Planter-BB900-45H/306677187 After a good layer of clay balls or lava rock, I put a separator of landscape fabric and then my soil and things - horticultural charcoal, orchid bark, chopped up sphagnum moss, play sand all mixed up and after everything has been planted in, covered with a thick layer of clean leaf litter (the only thing I bake to sterilize pests out of) and a couple of pieces of cork bark for the isopods to hide under.

 

[ERKleRose]

In actually amazing with plants, so it came as a huge surprise to me when I heard the lucky bean plant was toxic I'm in school currently and studying botany, so really any plants you recommend I can put in.

The best (and really only plants since veileds eat them) are the veiled tested ones from the Chameleon Academy’s website and the two graphics above. It’s better to be safe rather than sorry with veileds!

That’s so cool! I love botany but know very little about it. What’s your favorite plant?

 

[dominitri]

The best (and really only plants since veileds eat them) are the veiled tested ones from the Chameleon Academy’s website and the two graphics above. It’s better to be safe rather than sorry with veileds!

That’s so cool! I love botany but know very little about it. What’s your favorite plant?

My favorite plant is a bleeding heart they are also known as Dicentras, and are in the same family as Poppies! Here in Seattle we get Pacific bleeding hearts but there's tons of different kinds of them and I grow a few kinds in my front yardAnother really cool plant is pitcher plants, which youve probably heard of lol, but if you haven't there tall carnivorous plants that have a sweet sap along there rim that attract flies, that almost just fall into the pitcher plant, it's actually kinda funny to watch! Do you have a favorite plant?

 

[dominitri]

If you are going to have any soil on the floor, then you want to go fully bioactive. This is a great guide to setting up bioactive. https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/intro-to-bio-activity.2429/ The drainage layer is essential, as is having a clean up crew of springtails and isopods. The soil and its amendments can be done in varied ways, but the drainage and clean up crew must be done right. I use root pouches to contain my soil. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Root-Po...Pots-with-Handles-Planter-BB900-45H/306677187 After a good layer of clay balls or lava rock, I put a separator of landscape fabric and then my soil and things - horticultural charcoal, orchid bark, chopped up sphagnum moss, play sand all mixed up and after everything has been planted in, covered with a thick layer of clean leaf litter (the only thing I bake to sterilize pests out of) and a couple of pieces of cork bark for the isopods to hide under.

Thank you! I'll take all of this into account

 

[ERKleRose]

My favorite plant is a bleeding heart they are also known as Dicentras, and are in the same family as Poppies! Here in Seattle we get Pacific bleeding hearts but there's tons of different kinds of them and I grow a few kinds in my front yardAnother really cool plant is pitcher plants, which youve probably heard of lol, but if you haven't there tall carnivorous plants that have a sweet sap along there rim that attract flies, that almost just fall into the pitcher plant, it's actually kinda funny to watch! Do you have a favorite plant?

Those are so pretty! Their flowers kind of look like bluebell flowers! You’ll have to add pics if you have any of your yard, too! Lol yes, I’ve heard of pitcher plants from this community haha, along with a few other carnivorous plants (some keepers use them as pest bug control even!). Pitcher plants remind me of slip and slides when they’re catching prey

Gosh, I love a lot of them, but if I had to choose, I’d say the pink lemon tree (kind of blanking on plants but I do love pink lemon tree tons!)

 

[dominitri]

Those are so pretty! Their flowers kind of look like bluebell flowers! You’ll have to add pics if you have any of your yard, too! Lol yes, I’ve heard of pitcher plants from this community haha, along with a few other carnivorous plants (some keepers use them as pest bug control even!). Pitcher plants remind me of slip and slides when they’re catching prey

Gosh, I love a lot of them, but if I had to choose, I’d say the pink lemon tree (kind of blanking on plants but I do love pink lemon tree tons!)

I'll made sure to take pictures when they blossom! I'll try finding some old pictures in the mean time pink lemon trees really are awesome, my friend use to have one but it got chopped down sadly. I remember explaining to my friend that pink lemonade doesn't come from pink lemons

 

[ERKleRose]

I can’t wait, thank you!

I sadly fell into the same category as your friend when I first got my own haha Then I Googled it was and was sorely disappointed lol
My pink lemon tree died a few years ago, I believe during the big Texas Deep Freeze of 2021, and I haven’t found a new since. I grew it from just bigger than a sapling and only got its first ever year of fruit, so that specific tree was very special to me

 

[dominitri]

Oh no! I hope you get a new sappling or tree soon I am lucky to have a court yard going off my house (it sounds a lot fancier than it really is) and my landlord lives flowers and plants so I have some pretty cool plants that grow in my yard, the only problem is the bees in spring lol

 

[ERKleRose]

Thank you, and that all sounds awesome!! I’m jealous!

 

[dominitri]

You want to create a forest edge in your enclosure. You want lots of branches and vines to provide lots of little chameleon roads to travel on, patrol his enclosure (an adult male thing) and exercise. I like real branches. Avoid ones from trees with heavy odors or saps, like pines, eucalyptus. Oak is great. Wash with some soapy water, rinse extremely well and air or sun dry. No need to bake, bleach or otherwise sterilize. I even leave lichen on mine. Then your plants should be dense enough to provide areas to hide in, take shade from the heat/uvb, collect water droplets for drinking and just exploring.
It can be a challenge to hang things, especially with screen. One awesome solution is Dragon Ledges. https://dragonstrand.com/dragon-ledges/ Some have crafted their own, but I don’t recall how. When I needed to set up an enclosure and there was no time to wait for Dragon Ledges, I used some scrap garden trellis. I secured it with thin wire to the frame of the enclosure. I did add a couple of screws on each support so they wouldn’t slide down. It’s much sturdier than I thought and looks better than I expected, so it’s what I’ve been doing with additional set ups. I can attach lots of branches and even some potted plants.
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I just took the lucky bean plant out and replaced it jalapeno seems happy, and I made sure to put in plants he could eat if he really wanted lol