Bioactive vivarium

jjhill001 · 10-24-17, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Shauna0522

Thank you so much im sure I will definitely hit you up as this will be my first bioactive vivarium. One more question can I go buy plants at home depot or something like that to put in my vivarium? I know they would have to be organically grown I'm just not sure if they would introduce anything bad into it.

For me I'd purchase them online, simply because many of those plants are sort of cherry picked for terrariums, they don't seem to be that much more expensive either, even with shipping. The fern I got from thebiodude is doing amazing. If you buy online I would recommend getting plants only in pots, avoiding clippings especially if your snake is a decent size. I bought plant clippings from a different vendors and my snake killed the crap out of them. I also worry about potential pesticides and fertilizers hurting the bugs.

I do know that some people use the plants from the hardware store or if you can find an organic garden. And you get to inspect the plants before you buy them so there are benefits. Overall it's gonna be your personal choice.

I also would say that if you have the opportunity to give the terrarium a month or so to let the plants get established before putting the snake in it would make the plants more likely to be successful. I lost 2 of the 3 plants I initially got (only one was from the dude) because they were clippings and I've yet to replace them to be honest lol.

I hope that was some help!

Shauna0522 · 10-25-17, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by jjhill001

For me I'd purchase them online, simply because many of those plants are sort of cherry picked for terrariums, they don't seem to be that much more expensive either, even with shipping. The fern I got from thebiodude is doing amazing. If you buy online I would recommend getting plants only in pots, avoiding clippings especially if your snake is a decent size. I bought plant clippings from a different vendors and my snake killed the crap out of them. I also worry about potential pesticides and fertilizers hurting the bugs.

I do know that some people use the plants from the hardware store or if you can find an organic garden. And you get to inspect the plants before you buy them so there are benefits. Overall it's gonna be your personal choice.

I also would say that if you have the opportunity to give the terrarium a month or so to let the plants get established before putting the snake in it would make the plants more likely to be successful. I lost 2 of the 3 plants I initially got (only one was from the dude) because they were clippings and I've yet to replace them to be honest lol.

I hope that was some help!

That was very helpful thank you My snake is only like 2 months old so I don't think she will be hurting any plants yet lol. So one more question...for now haha I am going to be building her a new vivarium at some point, will it be difficult to transfer the bioactive substrate when I do that? I mean I know not technically but will it kill all my bugs and what not?

jjhill001 · 10-25-17, 03:16 PM

If you just dumped the substrate straight from one vivarium to the other you likely wouldn't kill many if any bugs.

Transferring the plants will shock the plants pretty good so it might not be the worst idea to transfer them a few weeks early with a good chunk of soil.

Shauna0522 · 10-25-17, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jjhill001

If you just dumped the substrate straight from one vivarium to the other you likely wouldn't kill many if any bugs.

Transferring the plants will shock the plants pretty good so it might not be the worst idea to transfer them a few weeks early with a good chunk of soil.

Ok thank you