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Ok so we astablished it is toxic but i im getting a jacksons which rarly ever eat leaves..I thought.

could i use it in the cage?

I should be careful about crickets eating it though...althogh they dont eat my potho.

does anyones jacksons like to climb in there potho?
mine never climbed init...

As far as I know, a philodendron IS a pothos.
I have also read that it is the split leaf variety of philodendron that is "most" toxic.

Sort of like how the DWARF schefflera is non toxic, but the giant variety is. Split leaf philondendron are of the "giant" status as well.

Neither my crixs, NOR my cham eat any of the plants in the enclosure...but my Monkey tailed skink devours her pothos.
Her pee turns dark purple/brown from it.
I have read that the Monkey tailed skink is the only species that pothos is NOT toxic to, and that they can live off of it. Supposedly it is related to the fig trees that they spend their lives in on the Solomon Islands.
Now, perhaps by that statement they mean in the same quantities that the skink will eat the pothos. Dill will eat pothos to the exclusion of everything else if I let her....maybe that quantity would kill another species of herp.

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Kim

Kim, you're close in that they are in the same family, Araceae, but they are not the same plant. They are "toxic" only if consumed in large quantities. For what it is worth I have one of each in with my leaf cham's but they don't eat them.

Here's some info:

philodendron
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Philosp.htm
pothos
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Epiprau.htm

lele

here's the entry site (by common name)

Poisonous plants

so i can use it in a jacksons chameleon cage without problems?

As the jacksons don't eat foliage - I would select a marbled kind of pothos - and use that. If you can, find some creeping fig too. It will crawl (grow) up the screen and make a humidity enhancement.

I use umbrella plants too... and small tropical plants - as most require less light - like the pothos.

Hope this helps,
Morgana - Reptayls, Ltd.

Ok I am very interested in these vines you introduced my to.

Please how do they hook to the screen?...can i take them off the screen with out ripping the screen?

do they do well in hanging baskests?

where can i find some....i llove ivys that climb walls...now one for a cham cage AWSOME!!!

Most shops/stores that sell plants will know what a creeping fig is. Where we live, the vines grow up the oaks and other tree trunks. It is a sturdy vine - but small leaves.

There is the green variety and a varigated variety. Both climb in a similar fashion as ivy. We use several different kinds of screens for our cages - only tried this on the aluminum 1/8" mesh screen - and it does well. Have not tried to take it down from the screen - just keep it trimmed. Yes - it does very well in baskets.

Morgana