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My boyfriend put together this 12 gallon nano for our two leucs.

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6.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
5 normal x pastel eggs incubating!
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
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*Amy*

It looks good. I see one of them in there.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

Looks fabulous! Is that a Miniature African Violet? I put some into the viv and they are all doing marvalously! And they keep flowering too! The tank is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Maggie

It is an african violet. It is a smaller plant, but not miniature. I love african violets, so I hope that I can sustain one in my dart tank
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6.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
5 normal x pastel eggs incubating!
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
-----My list is too long, so I'll stop here!
*Amy*

I've never tried the Arfican violets in my dart tanks, but the other closely related gesneriads have never done well for long--perhaps a year or so, and then they rot off or scraggle a lot, and never bloom again after the first few months. I think it may be ultimately too humid and not sharp enough drainage for them, as well as perhaps not enough light. I do grow some African violets otherwise, under rather dry, pot-bound conditions with lots of light, both natural and artificial, not much fertilizer at all, and they bloom all the time. I actually mistreat and sometimes ignore them until they are next to wilting before I water them again. Whenever a plant has hairs on its leaves, as most gesneriads do, be suspicous about how well it will ultimately continue to bloom and survive in a very humid, comparitively low-light vivarium. For many months they look great, and then they may begin to straggle and decline. I'm inluding a picture of Kohleria "flirt" here, which I was once most enthusiastic about, and indeed it did perform for awhile, well over a year. Now, it is barely surviving, and not blooming at all, because the tank conditions for dart frogs aren't the same as the plant requires over-all.

Experiment with it, maybe I'm wrong.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

I have tried Mini Africn Violets in my vivs with varying success. In one tank where the lighting was not so great, the moisture and lack of ventilation just rotted it in lightning speed. In another tank, I put it in the foreground where there was more light(actually-125Watt CF light 4.5 feet away), ventilation via Computor fan 6 hours a day(it dries off in between mistings-2xs a day). It is doing marvalously! It has grown to a huge size, and is blooming and blooming! So we'll see, it is not looking like if will die anytime soon. However, just 4 inches back is another such Miniture vioilet Deeper under the canopy of upper plants. While it has not died, it is not growing big but growing-just slowly.