Enclosure Plants

[Ofthelime]

Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask some questions about plants that I've read are safe for beardies enclosures (I want to spice up my viv).
The first plant being tilandsias. I read that they require fertilizing monthly. How would I do that safely?
The second plant would be carex buchananii. I was just wondering if you can split carex roots to make smaller clumps.
Thanks :bikerwave:

 

[premammalian]

I don't know about carex much apart of being an extremely large genus of sedges, but doesn't it like more water? Tilantsias are mainly saxicolous plants, that is, they grow upon rocks, taking advantage of whatever few nutrients are found there. The fertilizer they need in fact will be a very week solution, otherwise you might burn their roots. I would worry more about the dragon eating it, as it is a slow grower and it would be a waste to be killed like that. Probably you would put it somewhere high the dragon cannot reach, but do you want to have him constantly tempted? Better reserve the plant for more carnivorous reptiles or for outside of the terrarium.

 

[Ofthelime]

well seeing as tilandsias don't need to be rooted I am probably going to paste them to a wall

 

[Ofthelime]

I also have no problem buying a plant and then caring for it on the side after seeing if he's going to try and eat it.

 

[premammalian]

Search first before pasting any living plant anywhere. It would harm them. I haven't grown tilantsias, but with other epiphytic bromeliads you generally tie them on an irregular enough surface and later their roots cling on their own. But I think that most probably the dragon will eat your plants. Bromeliad leaves are thin like grass blades. And when they will flower, if they survive till that point, everything will be eaten. If you want plants, I would suggest you a pot of commonly grown vegetables or edible weeds for the dragon to brouse also if you have a large enough tank, or some cuttings of carpobrotus, a non-toxic succulent which might be eaten.

 

[Ofthelime]

Just to clarify, I have kept bromilades before. I was going to attach them to the wood in the viv I built using E6000 which many keepers of air plants do.