Help me set up this tank!

[deranged chipmunk]

You can get micro fauna from anywhere you like. Field collected is ok. I field collect Isopods too, but I let a few generations grow in my culture before I add them to the Viv. The springtails are your main cleaners and the toads will probably munch on them as well, so you should probably keep a culture of them around as well.

I am not a big fan of worms in a Viv. Yes, they do good in a garden, but in a Viv, if one dies, you have no idea and in the meantime, you have ammonia levels going through the roof. I use some organic potting soil in my tanks and I get a worm here, a worm there and I just pull them as I see then and add them to my container gardens

I figured you knew what to do as far as mycobacterium goes. But as a habit, always go with too much info, so please don't take it as an insult.


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[junebug]

Eww, yeah, I didn't think about what happens if you get a dead worm in a terrarium. Yuck! (And don't worry about offending me with mycos talk. Lots of people don't know how to deal with it, but I have friends who had major infestations in their betta setups. Rubbing alcohol is known to kill it. Also it can only live on dry surfaces for 30 days, but I tend to go longer with sterilization combined just to be sure now that I suspect I have it in my tanks.)

Where on earth do I buy springtails? I thought those were aquatic critters :/ I've never seen any other kind lol. Then again, not knowing, I never bothered to look.

I am so jealous by the way! A friend from another site is going to the reptile show in SD today and I can't go