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carlb1981
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/02/2013 :  12:53:43  Show Profile  Visit carlb1981's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Anyone on here run a bioactive setup?

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Kelfezond
The bearded one

United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/02/2013 :  13:19:43  Show Profile  Visit Kelfezond's Homepage  Click to see Kelfezond's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I want to

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Leucistic
Yearling

United Kingdom
453 Posts

Posted - 07/02/2013 :  14:24:49  Show Profile  Visit Leucistic's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I have read into it and it looks interesting.

Might have to give it a go one day with the frog setup :)

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carlb1981
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/02/2013 :  14:24:57  Show Profile  Visit carlb1981's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Im wanting to set an arboreal viv for gtp,etb or atb and want to give it a try its meant to be easier to get the humidity cycling right in a planted viv than one with artificial plants and substrate

3.3.0 Royals,Yellow Belly -Marty,Fire YB-Fred,Mojave-Mo,Butter Pinstripe-Betty,Pewter-Newt,Normal-Molly
0.1.0 Snow Cornsnake- Lumi
1.1.0 Hypo Sonoran Dwarf Boa-Bart and Maggie
0.1.0 Albino Pine Snake-Ruby
1.0.0 Bredli Python-Brian
1.0.0 Western Hognose-Hal
1.0.0 Kayuadi Retic-Kaa
0.1.0 Honduran Milksnake-Jubbly
1.1.0 Salmon Boas-Hershey and Sam
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos-Spot and Chocolate
1.4.0 Dune Geckos
0.1.0 Beardie-Cookie
0.3.7 Tarantulas
0.0.1 Pandinus Imperator/emperor scorpion
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator

United Kingdom
5008 Posts

Posted - 07/02/2013 :  21:12:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I set up my snails as a bioactive tub, worms, woodlice, springtails. All was going really well, then something in the balance changed, the woodlice died, the worms were doing well (and still are doing well, I sifted them all out), and then the whole place erupted with mushrooms and the springtails turned on the snails. I scrapped that substrate into the garden. I will have another go but probably need to find a way to keep the springtails in check. Let us know how you get on.


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boomslang
Old Royal - I Post too much!

United Kingdom
2025 Posts

Posted - 07/02/2013 :  22:30:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
All my chameleons are in planted bioactive setups.

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carlb1981
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
1527 Posts

Posted - 08/02/2013 :  07:14:39  Show Profile  Visit carlb1981's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by boomslang

All my chameleons are in planted bioactive setups.


how long did you have it running before adding the chameleon Im just wondering if a couple months is too long without something pooing in it to give the little critters something to do lol

3.3.0 Royals,Yellow Belly -Marty,Fire YB-Fred,Mojave-Mo,Butter Pinstripe-Betty,Pewter-Newt,Normal-Molly
0.1.0 Snow Cornsnake- Lumi
1.1.0 Hypo Sonoran Dwarf Boa-Bart and Maggie
0.1.0 Albino Pine Snake-Ruby
1.0.0 Bredli Python-Brian
1.0.0 Western Hognose-Hal
1.0.0 Kayuadi Retic-Kaa
0.1.0 Honduran Milksnake-Jubbly
1.1.0 Salmon Boas-Hershey and Sam
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos-Spot and Chocolate
1.4.0 Dune Geckos
0.1.0 Beardie-Cookie
0.3.7 Tarantulas
0.0.1 Pandinus Imperator/emperor scorpion
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Kelfezond
The bearded one

United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/02/2013 :  09:27:49  Show Profile  Visit Kelfezond's Homepage  Click to see Kelfezond's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Very interested to do this with a future arboreal snake vivarium! I did consider it with Pandora and Pilkington's monster vivarium but in the end decided I'd need critters the size of basketballs to devour their waste!

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boomslang
Old Royal - I Post too much!

United Kingdom
2025 Posts

Posted - 08/02/2013 :  16:34:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
how long did you have it running before adding the chameleon Im just wondering if a couple months is too long without something pooing in it to give the little critters something to do lol
Most spent time in their baby cages,before i put them in the adult housing.So around afew months.

One i planted etc,and just put the animal in afew weeks later.but it's easier to clean cham poo,then a gaint snake poop :) So some things you can just put in the viv...Where as it would need longer for a snake.

It still needs cleaning from time to time to look nice :) which plants will live and die,which lighting is best etc etc.

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1.0.0 Normal corn
1.0.0 Extreme red Hognose
0.1.0 Extreme red tiger Hognose
1.1.0 yemen chameleons
1.0.0 Piebald yemen
1.0.0 Tamatave panther
1.0.0 Quadricornis
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