Nice looking cage. Did you build that? How tall is it?



And about the plants, if you have an Orchard's Supply & Hardware near you, they almost always carry HUGE Schefflera plants. There are a few in my area and I bought a couple from them that were about two and a half to three feet high out of the pot, no kidding. Other great plants to use are Dracaenas. They can grow pretty tall, but most available are about 48" high and look really good in cham cages.



Personally, I prefer to use Dracaenas, scheffleras, and Boston Ferns in my cham cages. They look pretty good together and give a little bit more of a tropical look and generally look better than ficus trees, in my opinion. Though, the ficus trees that are sold around here aren't taken care of that well. I was lucky enough to find this MASSIVE Boston fern from this small nursery that was so big, I had to do some rearranging of the other plants. It cost about 20 bucks, but it was in awesome condition and it was just enormous.



Anyway, if I were you, I'd consider getting a nice Dracaena or two to fill up the upper half of the cage and you can get them anywhere. Even the Costcos around here have them for sale and I got mine there for about 8 bucks.



Oh yeah, (not to sound condescending or anything) from the pic it looks like your cage is almost on the floor. When it's all together, you'd want to lift it higher off the ground so around the middle of the cage is eye level. The less stressed your cham will be.



But your cage looks really good. If you built that, kudos. I was going to build my cham a cage, but the design I wanted was too expensive to do right now, so I just got the standard 24"x24"x48" screen cage for the moment. How much did that cage run you?

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