I have a juvenile iguana (Approx. 5 years old and fairly small). He is housed in a pretty large terrarium (About 5 feet x 4 feet x 2 feet), that is plenty tall and spacious enough for a plant of some sort. Does anyone have any recommendations about good plants for iguana terrariums? He is well fed and enjoys basking under his heat lamp most of the time, so I am not too worried about him destroying it by eating all the leaves or climbing it.
hibiscus plants are great, but be warned - iguanas *love* hibiscus and the plant and all it's flowers may be gone in a matter of days! lol! we just keep a hibiscus that we pull the flowers off of to put in the dish as a treat sometimes because iggies love the plant so much. i'm sure there are some cheaper safe plants you could put in there, but i can't think of any right now.
They love the hibiscus leaves even more than the flowers, and they're better for them. Honestly though, I'd forget planting hibiscus. We have three 5ft iguanas. In Annie's enclosure we planted half a dozen 4ft high hibiscus plants... within 2 days, she'd annihilated all of them - as well as the mass of salad she was already being fed. I know, you said you're not to worried about him destroying it, but you'd be replacing them weekly with a big healthy iguana.
I also tried live plants. Even in a large enclosure, they were trampled and eaten. Besides the costs, there is also some danger. Plants from commercial sources are frequently sprayed with pesticides. Some commercial greenhouses mist weekly with chemicals. Glenda
