The Tropical Gardener

They have to be SUB tropical plants and animals.
Pictures would be nice.

Even-toed ungulates

Elk
Abbott’s duiker
Chunyi

Carnivores

Ocelot
Cameroon clawless otter
Little spotted cat
Margay
Andean fox
Harris’s olingo
Gray fox
Chiriqui olingo
Indian smooth-coated otter
Asiatic jackal
African wild dog
Common fox
Everett’s ferret-badger
Asiatic wild dog
Bush dog

Bats

Spurrell’s woolly bat
Veldkamp’s bat
Dwarf slit-faced bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Salim ali’s fruit bat
Lesser dawn bat
Sombre bat
Lamotte’s roundleaf bat
Gland-tailed free-tailed bat
Moloney’s flat-headed bat
Aellen’s roundleaf bat
Decken’s horseshoe bat
Little free-tailed bat
Peter’s tube-nosed bat
Guinean horseshoe bat
Swinny’s horseshoe bat
Long-haired rousette
Lesser dog-faced fruit bat
Sao tomé collared fruit bat
Scott’s mouse-eared bat
Mandelli’s mouse-eared bat
Welwitch’s bat

Hyraxes

Eastern tree dassie

Elephant-shrews

Four-toed elephant shrew
Black and rufous elephant shrew
Checkered elephant shrew

Primates

Bonobo
Chimpanzee
Long-haired spider monkey
Gee’s golden langur
Orang-utan
Slender loris
Gorilla
Andean titi monkey
Lion-tailed macaque
Drill
Preuss’s guenon
Black colobus

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Naivasha mole rat
Mt. kahuzi climbing mouse
King mole rat
Remarkable climbing mouse
Mt. oku rat
Ruanda mole rat
Kivu climbing mouse
Rudd’s mole rat
Brant’s climbing mouse
Dent’s vlei rat
Kaiser’s rock rat
Embi mole rat
Congo forest mouse
Typical vlei rat
East african mole rat
Defua rat
Charming thicket rat
Harrington’s rat
Crested rat
Kemp’s thicket rat
Svynnerton’s bush squirrel
African brush-tailed porcupine
Gray brush-furred rat
Boehm’s bush squirrel
Medium-tailed brush-furred rat
Cooper’s mountain squirrel
Rahm’s brush-furred rat
Carruther’s mountain squirrel
Black and red bush squirrel
Greater hamster-rat
Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Lady burton’s rope squirrel
Vincent’s bush squirrel
Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
Red-cheeked rope squirrel
Hartwig’s praomys
Forest thicket rat
Delectable soft-furred mouse
Giant thicket rat
Jackson’s praomys
Ruwenzori thicket rat
Misonne’s praomys
Short-footed luzon tree rat
Musser’s shrew mouse
Shining thicket rat
Woodland dormouse
Cameroon praomys
Rümmler’s brush mouse

etc etc

Some of my tropical house plants get a bit browned on the outer leaves. I live in a west-facing apartment in the middle of Kyoto, which gets pretty warm in the summer sun.

Have a lovely day!

yeah, keep them in shade with a bit of dappled light. Moist areas are especially good (such as bathrooms). Kepp moist but don’t over water.

We have a tropical fish tank and have purchased some more tropical plants (Cryptocorynes, Cabomba, Anubias Nana), can we place them straight in the gravel.? We have heard a roumor that if you add peat in the tank they will grow more, is this true? any hints?

Yes its true but you need to put the peat in before the gravel when you set the tank up. I would sugest if that is not possible that you put a Grolux bulb in your tank or something equivalent. The plants that you describe need a lot of light and plant food. If all else fails and your plants dont do very well you could get some Java fern which will grow anywhere and multiply very quickly. Good luck.