indyana
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Setting up a bioactive viv for some blue death feigning beetles.
I have four layers of substrate, mostly because I made a mix I didn't like and buried it, haha. Put a moister substrate in one corner to support other cleaners like isopods and springtails, some planted haworthia in the opposite corner, then left the rest with drier and sandier substrate for the beetles. Lots of cork bark features for climbing fun!
Materials
I have four layers of substrate, mostly because I made a mix I didn't like and buried it, haha. Put a moister substrate in one corner to support other cleaners like isopods and springtails, some planted haworthia in the opposite corner, then left the rest with drier and sandier substrate for the beetles. Lots of cork bark features for climbing fun!
Materials
- 10 gallon aquarium
- Moist mix:
- 1 part coir (like eco earth but rougher cut)
- 1 part organic potting mix
- 1 part play sand
- Mid mix:
- 1 part coir
- 1 part organic potting mix
- 1 part sand
- Clay mix:
- 2 parts play sand
- 2 parts Excavator clay
- 1 part organic potting mix
- Top mix:
- 1 part above clay mix
- 2 parts play sand
- Collected leaf litter and leaf mold (mostly oak)
- Collected bugs (isopods, pill bugs, springtails, millipede)
- Haworthia succulents
- Haworthia potting mix:
- 1 part organic cactus/succulent potting mix
- 1 part horticultural pumice
- Large aquarium gravel
- Cork bark (tubes and various pieces)