Tokaybyt
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I've been keeping tokays since 1993 and breeding them since 98/99. I've always had my tokays within some sort of semi-naturalistic tank be it with or without plants. My latest venture into the matter stems back to 2001 when I was able to get a steal of a deal on an Oceanic Model 90 (90 gallons) Lizard Lounge with matching stand and hood. Unfortunately, my male tokay was diagnosed with coccidia earlier this year and since my female was housed with him I opted to treat her too. Both have been in separate 15 gallon tanks VERY simply set up for treatment, and ironically my female laid 1 lone egg within said quarantine tank back on May 9th. I've cleaned their former habitat thoroughly, using roccal. All plants and wood were tossed, but the large pieces of flat limestone I had were roccalled, rinsed, and baked.
Soooo...
I'm back to square one. I recently set up a new tank (not for the tokays), with one of the plants being creeping fig (Ficus pumila) and while reading the info/care tag I noticed it stated southeast asia as its native range. This got me thinking, which brings me to my now long winded question.
What other plants could I use that are common and/or semi-readily available suitable as a house plant or within a confined habitat space from the tokay's native range? Some initial searching on google yielded elephant's ear (Alocasia amazonica) and Croton (Codiaeum variegatum). I can get both locally from nurseries, Lowes/Home Depot, or grocery stores.
Soooo...
I'm back to square one. I recently set up a new tank (not for the tokays), with one of the plants being creeping fig (Ficus pumila) and while reading the info/care tag I noticed it stated southeast asia as its native range. This got me thinking, which brings me to my now long winded question.
What other plants could I use that are common and/or semi-readily available suitable as a house plant or within a confined habitat space from the tokay's native range? Some initial searching on google yielded elephant's ear (Alocasia amazonica) and Croton (Codiaeum variegatum). I can get both locally from nurseries, Lowes/Home Depot, or grocery stores.