Recommendations for center piece plants for dart frog Viv.

[Keister]

I am looking for some more center piece style plants for the background of my Viv. By center piece plants I mean I want something that stands out from the rest of my plants. The only real restrictions I have on plant choice is they need to be able to do well in a dart frog Viv. I have two jungle dawn LEDs so lighting isn't an issue. I am open to any and all recommendations! I just want my Viv to look good! I have a stag horn fern already so that one is out. Thanks in advance!

[DartEd]

Check out tillandsia albertiana. It's a funky looking air plant, does great in Vivs and flowers bright red.

[BonnieLorraine]

Are you looking for just epiphytes? If so, Dischidia hirsuta 'Red Leaf', Dischidia ovata, some of the brighter mini Neoregelias
If you include stuff that will vine up a background, Monstera krassiana, Philodendron 'Ecuador', Philodendron 'Burle Marx Fantasy' Rhaphidophora cryptantha, Monstera dubia, Macrgrevia rectifolia or 'Suriname'

[Keister]

Ya I am open to anything I have four pots to fill on my background and I am just looking for something to fill them that looks nice. Maybe something with broad leaves or something. I saw in a video what looked like a big pale redish brown bromeliad with wide leaves and I really liked that a lot not sure what it was so I am on a search to find it. Like I said I am open to anything as long as it looks nice. I have a purple creeping Jew as a vine already but it wouldn't hurt to have more!

[BonnieLorraine]

If you're going to do broms, I would just mount them to the background as they can rot, use the embedded pots for trailing plants.

Some good colored vivarium sized Neoregelias (I'm sure I'll think of more later, this is a partial list)

Red- Fireball (of course), Red Bird, Red Wolf, Sara Head
Orange/Peach- Tuti Fruiti, Devin's Delight, BAM
Purple- Arenada, Purple Star x dungsiana, Grapevine, Caviar, Java Plum
Yellow/Lime Green- punctatissima 'Yellow', Babe
Green with additional color/banding- Flare Up, Midget, Tiger Cub, Babe, dungsiana, Pepper, Red Dot, ampullacea cultivars, Night Spot, Small Fry

[Keister]

If you're going to do broms, I would just mount them to the background as they can rot, use the embedded pots for trailing plants.

Some good colored vivarium sized Neoregelias (I'm sure I'll think of more later, this is a partial list)

Red- Fireball (of course), Red Bird, Red Wolf, Sara Head
Orange/Peach- Tuti Fruiti, Devin's Delight, BAM
Purple- Arenada, Purple Star x dungsiana, Grapevine, Caviar, Java Plum
Yellow/Lime Green- punctatissima 'Yellow', Babe
Green with additional color/banding- Flare Up, Midget, Tiger Cub, Babe, dungsiana, Pepper, Red Dot, ampullacea cultivars, Night Spot, Small Fry

Awesome and thanks for those! I'll see what I can get! All the bromiliads will be mounted to the two logs I have on the background, so I won't have to mont them to the background itself. I really just want this to have that full jungle look to it. I want it to be consumed in plants while not just being an overgrown mess if you know what I mean hahaha.

[Keister]

Can I get an Id for this plant please?

[exasperatus2002]

Can I get an Id for this plant please?

Aechmea fasciata

[Keister]

Aechmea fasciata

Awesome thankyou! I really love the look of this plant and think it might be a nice addition to my viv!

[BonnieLorraine]

They're huge (about 2 feet tall), and incredibly spiny, I gash my arms on them regularly at work, might want to find something a bit smaller and less pokey >.<

[Keister]

They're huge (about 2 feet tall), and incredibly spiny, I gash my arms on them regularly at work, might want to find something a bit smaller and less pokey >.<

Oh wow ok I don't want a two foot tall plant in there with spines of death hahaha I'll find something else hahaha.

[exasperatus2002]

Oh wow ok I don't want a two foot tall plant in there with spines of death hahaha I'll find something else hahaha.

Frog skewers anyone? Yeah, beautiful plant but its a beast.

[Keister]

Hahaha true any other recommendations?

[Pac man]

potos(hope I'm spelling that right) and creeping fig are cool plants haven't had much luck growing creeping fig tho they grow a lot tho so be carefull

[deranged chipmunk]

There is a ficus from panama that would trail nicely from a planter high in the viv. I ha e a few others in mind. I can post some links tonight.

Btw, you do know that staghorn is going to grow into a monster, right?

[Keister]

There is a ficus from panama that would trail nicely from a planter high in the viv. I ha e a few others in mind. I can post some links tonight.

Btw, you do know that staghorn is going to grow into a monster, right?

Awesome thankyou! Also yes I do hahaha I will let it get as big as it can in the Viv and then I will relocate it out of the Viv into a much larger pot as not to kill it. I just like them a lot so I figured I would start one in the Viv. So yes I do and I have a plan for it after it outgrows the Viv.

[deranged chipmunk]

Here's the ficus i.spoke of : Catalog

And that staghorn will look really cool mounted on a piece of cork bark after it our grows the viv.

[Keister]

Here's the ficus i.spoke of : Catalog

And that staghorn will look really cool mounted on a piece of cork bark after it our grows the viv.

Ya that's exactly what I was planning in doing with it actually!