Live plants in tanks?

[Justdragons]

Hey Folks,
suppose this like many things have been done to death, but i bought a sword fern bout 2 weeks ago for my EWD tank which has great ventalation. the tank sits at about 29 on the warm end and bout 22 on the cool end( where i put the fern) and after a day or two it looked a bit shadey then died in the pants over the next few days.... its on life support atm, i put it out the back with all my other pot plants..

Im a good enough gardener as i have really good veggies and fruit going but for the life of me cannot understand why it died... do i need some sort of light for the plant? is the uv to strong? i like fake plants but i would thing the dragons would like some natural plants and stuff. please help.

Toby

 

[Scleropages]

Plants are harder than most herps to keep alive... humidity / lighting / temp ... big nightmare
Not to mention a WD would crush most smaller plants.

Heres some of my enclosures atm

 

[zes50]

Wow, those really look incredible!!

Care to share some tips? What kind of flourescent tubes do you use, and how do you solve drainage problems in a glass tank? Are they drilled at all?

I would love to be able to have something like that for my frog tanks.

 

[Justdragons]

OMFG... well mr ive got awesome live tanks... whats your secret?? hmm?? please do tell because thats gotta be one of the best examples of live plants in tanks ive seen.. a few of them have no reptiles in i would assume??

 

[12-08-67]

now that is just bragging fantastic enclosures

 

[Scleropages]

now that is just bragging fantastic enclosures

lol have to show them somewhere.. all my mates think I am mad stuffing around with plants and animals in little glass boxes , haha

 

[Masonwells]

Wow I'm about to build a GTP tank ready for this time next year, please share some tips they look fantastic.

 

[Sinners121]

could you do a DIY thread to creating one of those tanks??? pretty please? and what plants are you using with what care??
Cheers

 

[JungleManSam]

I second that

could you do a DIY thread to creating one of those tanks??? pretty please? and what plants are you using with what care??
Cheers

 

[tyson001]

i would also love to see a DIY thread on one of those tanks absolutely amazing

 

[clipo38]

could you do a DIY thread to creating one of those tanks??? pretty please? and what plants are you using with what care??
Cheers

same

 

[SperO]

pfft..showoff.. but yea those are amazing

 

[Tobe404]

Damn that is impressive. I always wondered about smaller types of plants that you might be able to use in enclosures. Especially when I had some Mantids.

At one stage i had a plant or weed sort of thing growing in my Scorp tanks. And the little tub I had the Marbled Geckos in. No idea why though.