I have live plants. All the plants in the substrate in the pics are real. I used cypress mulch for a good while but now use a mixture of cypress, eco earth, and repti bark in all my cages and tank with live plants. I plant them directly into a thick layer of substrate but still keep the substrate thin over the uth on the warm side. I have never done anything special for them as in adding rocks.
I buy them from Petco and they come in a slotted pot with a sponge like material holding the roots. I keep them in these pots and the roots grow out and spread out in the substrate great. I just have to be carful when I redo my substrate to not tare the roots when I remove them.
To water them I pour water directly on them and soak the substrate around them every few days.
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