I just picked these up from Home Depot because they looked nice. Any word on plant names, or useability? My tank will *hopefully* be house a pair of D. Aurutas.

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Here is my tank.



Thanks!

THe top one is a variegated ivy and the bottom three look like draceneas. They should all be fine but most of those draceneas will need to be pruned as they are going to want to grow straight up and not stop.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you have a problem. All but one of these are going to grow tall. They may be fine for a while but you will soon have to replace them so keep them in a pot if you decide to use them at all.
#1 is an ivy and should be alright for a while as it can be trimmed.
#2 a draceana species commonly called a corn plant.
#3 draceana marginata, the dragon tree
#4 spathapyllum species, peace lilly. Will get larger and bushier

The dracaenas can be cut back but you will end up with just a stump for a while. If you are lucky they will sprout out and grow back. sometimes they don't.The Spath cannot be trimmed.

If you look more into the ficus species you may have better luck. Tree form ficus take pruning well and with a bit of work you could actually have a miniature tree as in Bonsai. There are even dwarf varieties with very small leaves that are commonly used for indoor bonsai.
Ficus pumila or creeping fig will give you a ground cover type of growth but will grow up anything it gets close to.
Try going to a regular nursery that specializes in house plants adn tell them you are looking for miniature variaties for use in a small terrarium

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I like plants, but how big of a tank is that. Those plants will all outgrow it eventually, Ivy can be cut back, but if you don't let it re-root as it spreads, it will eventually get root bound and rot from the inside out. Peace lillies are great, but they don't prune well at all, and usually require a floor pot before long. Same with the corn plant. I don't know much about the dragon tree, but the research that I have done shows it to be a "tree" and not a shrub so it will get far to large.

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Thats the problem. Its a 10 gal.

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Sorry, I just saw the other post. That is not a lot of space for live plants, I would use fake plants or some kind of air plants, anything else requires a decent rooting space, and could overgrow the terrarium so that it was more of a nuisance than a decoration. I got a fake Ivy vine for my Horned frog tank, and put in moss that came in mat form. The vine looks like it is real unless you get really close, it is a little more expensive for the really good looking stuff, but it is easier, and it can be soaked to clean it. The only thing that I have live planted is a futureleopard gecko tank, and that is all bonzai style cacti (jade and flowing cactus, as well as some kind of bulb style that is really slow growing).

Vine plants are nice, but they are difficult to keep totally contained. Like I said, they can be cut back, but when they get cut back too many times they get stressed and will start trying to branch out and root, and will eventually get root bound, even if you clip back the branches, the roots keep growing, and will rot in the pot they are in.

My recomendation is to look into a bonzai style, and see about ficus, or some kind of low lying fern. With ferns you can totally remove all the overgrown branches, and keep them looking small, but again, that is a lot of stress on the plant. I recommend Irish Ivy if you don't want really high maintanance plants, it does well in humidity, and is a slower growing Ivy.

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I reccomend a bigger viv if you want plants

It's quite easy, actually, to keep plants in a 10g. All the plants above were 1.77$, so I figured i'd pick them up cause they looked cool. Can't use them? Oh well. Back to Pothos and Ivy.

Thanks for the input though guys.

Haha, I was just kidding . Keeping plants in my enclosures was never my thing...just ask my poor cam

Andrew, seems you based your decision to buy those on their price tag and not on your needs. As far as I know, most dracaena species are not big fans of soggy wet soils and their roots will most likely rot on those conditions.

Ask the shop clerks what they recommend for your specific case.

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