which plants to put in the tank?

[vandamay]

Hi i have a peace lilly that needs to be seperated and potted up into more pots i was wondering which plants would be safe for putting in the tank as a permanent feature for the snailies to hide in etc, any suggestions please?

[crossless]

Plants have to like high humidity and if you don't have much daylight then plants that like half shadow would be ideal to put in tank.

I have had these my tank now Ficus benjamina, it's edible my baby snails had to be rehad babies 'cos they stopped eating food 'cos plant was too taste. But now they are juveniles and they don't anymore eat it. If you need extra support for heavy snails just braid stems togetter they are really strong togetter!

Then I had once somekind of "pineapple" type plant I took it off 'cos my adults came so heavy that the leaves can't stand it weight. But pineapple typed plants would be ideal for medium size snails.

Now I'm waiting that my Yucca elephantipes grows bigger so I can put it to my snails tank. I had once Epipremnum pinnatum and Scindapsus pictus, but suprice suprice they got eaten by babies again. I try to give them intensive care but one die soon and nother one of the plant has grown in 6month time period one new leaves now have too leaves. LOL, maybe soon I can put it back to tank. Then hop [Humulus lupulus] Would be ideal to try some day it's can't stand at all drying and it grows really fast and it's easy to get some new roots to stems.

I start to keep live plants again in tank when my dad makes bigger tank formy snails.

My sis put in water glass branch of Cissus rhombifolia to get some roots, hopely soon. It's wood stemed plant grows quickly and it edible for stick insects and baby snails, adults will leave it alone. And it don't mind of cutting and been in moist soil all the time, but it likes if u sometimes let they soil dry a little bit.

[vandamay]

Thanks crossless thats really helpful x

[Amber]

This may sound bizarre, but there are actually some types of lettuce that snails dont eat!
I bought some living lettuce plants from the supermarket salad section to put in the tanks.... just so they had some self sustaining food in there that could last a couple of days. Obviously they ate most of it, but there were two different types of red lettuce edged leaves that they didnt touch at all. They now grow in the back of the tank as a type of foilage (they are supposed to grow upward but the snailies will keep slippin all over them flattening them).... probably not alot of help to be fair but finding lettuce that snails wont eat! That was worth posting, lets face facts!

[crossless]

Maybe you could get from peas some kind of vine if you let it twine tightly around all sticks.. Hmm. I could try that I have peas left some where when I planted few to garden.

I had banana plant in summer in tank, but that grow in week so big that I have to take it away from tank. I could let it grow bigger and serve it's leaves to them. They munched a little bit sometimes. I would like put every now or then new start of banana plant in tank, but I think my house would be come banana plant junk yard, but if you have option to give banana plants to people, when it grows too big, that could be nice idea to think of.

[vandamay]

I must say thats a fab idea about the lettuce i have some cos little gem seeds left, do you think i could plant a few? i also have mixed lettuce leafs seeds, maybe i could do that too, i really do not think my tanks would take a banana plant even if i could find one here ;D all my snails are quite small just now as i am just starting out, my biggest is 4and a half inches long, i will be up sizing tanks as they all grow