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I just started kinda panicking about parasites, etc. the other day. I decided to try some real plants in my tribolonotus viv. I rinsed the plants and thoroughly cleand all containers, etc.(waited til a inside/out cleaning of the viv. to put the plants in so it all got scrubbed at once) but I'm wondering about the possibility of 'undesireables' lurking in the potting soil I used. Also, there is some vermiculite in the soil. Is that an issue? I'm about to run home and take everything outta there unless somebody tells me it's all ok.

Thanks a bunch
Matt

it's not the best idea to put potting soil in snakes cages. personally i would reccomend to go get some ground coconut bedding... its sold in compressed bricks... then just soak it in the water to expand it and it will be come just like soil. rinse all the dirt off the roots and replant it in the coco husk dirt stuff.

now i'm not sure what that plant is, i'm not too great with scientific names, so i'm not telling you if the plant is safe or not.

i wouldnt rush home to change this out, but just when u get home take it out until you get the coco husk stuff. its like $4/brick
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Thanks. The coconut husk stuff is a good idea. From what I've read, the plants should be fine. It's lycenea which is that small, large-bladed, grass sort of plant with the purple edges. It's mainly the soil I started to worry about, even though what I did was put the plants in wide, shallow dishes and cover those with my usual substrate of orchid bark.