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 Carnivorous plants in natural vivarium for reptiles...

Just curious if any one has ever tried that.... It seems like it could be risky but none the less I thought it would be would be interesting if someone had tried it.

I’m thinking of doing it, but I don’t want to do it if it could be a problem.

I guess there’s only one way to find out....
01/12/07  04:22am

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 Carnivorous plants in natural vivarium for reptiles...

The only problem I can think of is that most carnivorous plants are small, delicate, and need a lot of moisture. They would be trampled by your herps, and you couldn’t keep them humid enough. Just my thoughts on it...

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01/12/07  08:26am

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 Carnivorous plants in natural vivarium for reptiles...

The size was my concern as well...

But the humidity shouldn’t be a problem with a herp that needs high humidity.

Take a crested gecko. There mostly arboreal. So they perfer to spend there time in a high plant such as a Ficus Benjamina. Now the Nepenthes vieillardii is from New Caledonia. So the humidity and temp requirements should be the same. But I could be wrong. But I would think that a Crested Gecko would work ok with this particular species of Carnivorous Plant. But I’ve never tried it so I’m not saying it will but that it might be worth an experiment. Because I’m thinking that the crested gecko wouldn’t spend much time on the Nepenthes vieillardii. He would perfer the higher plants. Plus as I said there from the same region.
01/12/07  05:11pm


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