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<blockquote data-quote="Gizalba" data-source="post: 222604" data-attributes="member: 31253"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Does anyone have experience of planting live plants in enclosures and how to wash them first/make sure there aren't any fertilisers or other chemicals on it from maybe the soil it was planted in at the original shop, that could be dangerous to the tarantula? I bought the plant from swell reptiles and have contacted the shop where they bought the plant to ask. Of course they can't guarantee there were no chemicals but they don't 'think' there were any in the soil, although they did buy it from another shop so can't be sure. I have tried to shake most of the original soil off the roots but I'm scared of damaging the plant so some is remaining, then re-potted it into my own safe substrate. </p><p></p><p>The plant is this Muehlenbeckia complexa, which I am wanting to put in my Psalmopoeus Cambridgei enclosure to make it more natural and provide lots of foliage cover. I will be using hydro balls as a drainage layer and have tried to choose a plant that has similar needs as the tarantula.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gizalba, post: 222604, member: 31253"] Hi, Does anyone have experience of planting live plants in enclosures and how to wash them first/make sure there aren't any fertilisers or other chemicals on it from maybe the soil it was planted in at the original shop, that could be dangerous to the tarantula? I bought the plant from swell reptiles and have contacted the shop where they bought the plant to ask. Of course they can't guarantee there were no chemicals but they don't 'think' there were any in the soil, although they did buy it from another shop so can't be sure. I have tried to shake most of the original soil off the roots but I'm scared of damaging the plant so some is remaining, then re-potted it into my own safe substrate. The plant is this Muehlenbeckia complexa, which I am wanting to put in my Psalmopoeus Cambridgei enclosure to make it more natural and provide lots of foliage cover. I will be using hydro balls as a drainage layer and have tried to choose a plant that has similar needs as the tarantula. [/QUOTE]
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