Natural Viv question

[Alnovo]

Hey everyone, I'm still around kind of been on hiatus. Been busy/lazy all that good stuff.

Anyhoo, I'm currently using a naturalistic vivarium for my crestie. She seems happy as can be, she's grown quite a bit and quite quickly I might add. Weighed her in at 26 grams about a week ago. First got her in May and she weighed 7 grams.

What I was wondering was, for keeping the substrate healthy and keeping the plants healthy, does anyone know of a good place I might get Captive bread earth worms and/or pill bugs (rolly polly's as i've heard them called before)? Either in or near the city of Ottawa or even a website to order from.

If not, would digging them out of the garden be ok to put in with her? I know she'd probably try to eat them if/as she saw them...I've heard it's ok, but I've also heard "Don't do it man" type stuff.

I've tried all the pet stores around town that I can easily get to and they only sell the mealworms and super worms. Any info would be awesome.

Thanks all!

Allen

 

[acpart]

I have pill bugs from the back garden in all 4 of my planted vivs, some for 4 years with no problems. Sometimes I see little ones, so I know they are breeding and happy.

Aliza

 

[Alnovo]

perfect! I'll have to get some. My folks live in the country and have a ton of land and a huge garden, shouldn't be too hard to get a few of them. Thanks Aliza!

 

[darkridder]

ack dont use ones from outside you run a large chance of introdoing a parasite to your crestie. Check out www.lunargecko.net Sarah, the owner of the website breed earthworms and pills bugs so shoot her an email and tell her thongwedgie sent ya!