Wood mites

[Pirarucu]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Dude, I've done it for years. Never once have I used a clean up crew. Not even in the days when I worked in a pet store with EVERYTHING in tanks and multiple animals. We got in trouble if we just "missed" some of it. It's ALL in a pile. You can't miss it. Stop making excuses for lazy keepers.

By "large, elaborate cage" I did not mean like a Ball Python in a 75 or even 125 gallon tank with cypress and branches everywhere. That is still a simple tank to me. Large and elaborate means a cage larger than a room, piled high with stuff. I'm talking about a cage with spots you can't even see or get to. If a keeper is setting up cages like what I'm talking about, they would not be lazy, it would simply be impractical to not have it bioactive.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by Pirarucu

By "large, elaborate cage" I did not mean like a Ball Python in a 75 or even 125 gallon tank with cypress and branches everywhere. That is still a simple tank to me. Large and elaborate means a cage larger than a room, piled high with stuff. I'm talking about a cage with spots you can't even see or get to. If a keeper is setting up cages like what I'm talking about, they would not be lazy, it would simply be impractical to not have it bioactive.

Wait, were we not talking in our own homes for the average keeper? Your argument is now based on zoo sized enclosures?

[Pirarucu]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Wait, were we not talking in our own homes for the average keeper? Your argument is now based on zoo sized enclosures?

Yes. I did not say it should be needed for the average keeper, I was simply saying that there are instances where it is helpful to have a bioactive cage. I am doubtless that at least some keepers have their animals in large cages, and I am saying the need for a bioactive cage applies mainly to those individuals. I am not saying a snake in a tub should have a bioactive cage, in that case it is much easier to simply scoop out the poop, as you said.
As I said in my last post, a bioactive cage is only truly beneficial when it's simply impractical to clean the cage yourself.