[Josh loves dart frogs]

Hello, everyone! I just added my new vivarium plants. What does everyone think? I plan on changing the place of the two plants I zoomed in on, any suggestions of where they could go?

 

[Shade1971]

No tips, but I used to have the same red stem philodendron - grew like crazy, gets big, lots of aeriel roots. I slowly gave away or lost it over time which is too bad as I really miss it, great plant. Have to look for it again.

 

[solidsnake]

Those are some nice additions!

Is that a philo “red empress”? If so, I have one too. Hopefully they’ll stay small and red. Is the other a Peperomia caperata?

I’ve had best luck when I put my peperomia where they stay more dry and my philos where they stay more moist.

I think your final placement will probably depend on how big that red empress gets, right? Mine has been planted for about 4 months and is still small.

I suck at plant placement though. I move stuff around sooo much until I’m finally happy. lol

 

[thegeminijungle]

The peperomia in the first picture should do well, it'll get bigger but shouldn't get to an unmanageable size. The large-leaf vining plant looks to be a Marble Queen Pothos, you can always trim that back if it gets too long for your liking. The one in the third picture... That is a philodendron of some kind, it's still young so it's difficult to determine what exactly it could be but that will certainly grow to be very large. Your viv looks great though! I really like the peperomia!

 

[Josh loves dart frogs]

Those are some nice additions!

Is that a philo “red empress”? If so, I have one too. Hopefully they’ll stay small and red. Is the other a Peperomia caperata?

I’ve had best luck when I put my peperomia where they stay more dry and my philos where they stay more moist.

I think your final placement will probably depend on how big that red empress gets, right? Mine has been planted for about 4 months and is still small.

I suck at plant placement though. I move stuff around sooo much until I’m finally happy. lol

The philo is “McColleys Final” don’t know what the peperomia is

 

[solidsnake]

Oh, cool. Some of those self-heading philodendrons get pretty big. You’ll eventually want to move it to the back.

 

[Josh loves dart frogs]

Oh, cool. Some of those self-heading philodendrons get pretty big. You’ll eventually want to move it to the back.

Oh I didn’t know that. It was really small when I got it, thought it would pretty much stay that way

 

[Harpspiel]

Oh I didn’t know that. It was really small when I got it, thought it would pretty much stay that way

Best not to ever assume that, research the plant...

https://www.thejadeculture.com/uploads/1/3/8/3/138326872/s428070662209522876_p470_i1_w2880.jpeg

I think I've seen some people on here using McColley's Finale in vivs, the shallow soil might have a bonsai-like effect in keeping the plant smaller, but it will certainly need to be trimmed regularly.

 

[fishingguy12345]

Mine has started

Best not to ever assume that, research the plant...

https://www.thejadeculture.com/uploads/1/3/8/3/138326872/s428070662209522876_p470_i1_w2880.jpeg

I think I've seen some people on here using McColley's Finale in vivs, the shallow soil might have a bonsai-like effect in keeping the plant smaller, but it will certainly need to be trimmed regularly.

Mine has stayed pretty small, 2 years in.

 

[recasey]

The peperomia looks like Peperomia turboensis. Mine vines around the viv and seems happiest where it roots in the wetter areas.