How To Make Bioactive Enclosures For Ball Pythons

[@mhamam66]

amazing 🙂

[@The-Microverse]

Thanks Mama 😁

[@ingeniouspixie]

Beautiful! As always! I love that youre proving that is possible to successfully keep a snek in a bioactive enclosure. Also love seeing you interact with your lifeforms..❤

[@The-Microverse]

Much Gratitude Dearest Lifeform 😁, while it can be tricky, I feel that with enough obsession 😅 and knowledge of the lifeform bioactive enclosures are possible for all lifeforms, I always wanted to make a bioactive room, where you walk in and it's like a hiking trail threw up nature everywhere 🥹, a lifeform can only dream.... oh also hope you comming to the Ottawa expo, if so I gots a surprise for ya 😁

[@georgematys]

Got me on the pooperfall 😅😂😊great build and noodle my friend!

[@The-Microverse]

🤣 much Gratitude friend lifeform!!! The noodles are such precious lifeforms 😁

[@zeldafae5279]

Question. How do you keep mites out when doing this? Spray the substrate before hand with Provent-a-mite? Then wouldn't it kill off the decomposers? Very helpful video!

[@The-Microverse]

Luckily I have not had mite issues with Illumi, I'm very careful with new animals and new plants, but once harmful mites are in the soil, the only solution is to take everything apart, preferably the background as well, completely disinfect the enclosure as start over in the time your pet is in Quarantine ( to avoid a breakout or reintroduction) after you are sure the Snake lifeform is mite free, you can then safely reintroduce them to their newly disinfected/remodled home, hope this helps😁, mites are a pain

[@QuavyQua]

"LIES!! YOU HAVE NO PROOF I MADE THOSE POOPS IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE ISOPODS" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@The-Microverse]

He did deny having anything to do with the Pooper falls 🤣 🐙

[@koiffeedraws2431]

I’ve been researching bioactive enclosures in the hopes of maybe being able to give my bp one someday. (Currently have him in a naturalistic terrarium). However, isopods are not sold or bred where I live (Uruguay), so the only way I’d be able to make one would be by getting isopods off the wild. However, I’m concerned if that’d be fine or not? They are just bugs, but I’d be afraid they could bring parasites somehow or something else. Do you think it’d be fine? Or is it just not doable?

[@The-Microverse]

I totally appreciate your concern 😁 I would cultivate the isopods in a quarantine bin, the smaller isopods the better as long as they are not heavy protein feeders, after lets say 2 or 3 generantions, and if you see no problem with the population you can use them, but quarantine everything going into that tank, plants included, observe for a bit and go from there 😁 let me know how it goes 🐙

[@koiffeedraws2431]

@ awesome, thank you so much 😊 I won’t be setting it up for a good few months yet while I save up for a new enclosure (plan to upgrade daemon and leave his current terrarium for a future baby bp), so perhaps I could simply get to cultivating isopods in the meantime so that when I do set it up I’m quite a few generations in. I’ll also quarantine the tank for about a month before putting him in, just to check everything is working + let the plants grow before he climbs all over them haha. Thank you so so much! Def gonna subscribe, love finding more bp channels 😊

[@The-Microverse]

@koiffeedraws2431 yess do have the plants well established before you add the chonky noodle, they do like climbing so they will smoosh any plant in their way, avoid ferns and delicate plants, terrarium plant selection guide is coming soon 😁

[@koiffeedraws2431]

@@The-Microverse can't wait! Thanks so much for the help

[@The-Microverse]

@koiffeedraws2431 Anytime fellow lifeform, let me know if you have anymore questions, just might go live and answer a bunch 😁

[@ingeniouspixie]

So clever to think of a "cleaning gradient"!!!

[@The-Microverse]

Just case poop is on the dry side 😅

[@readylucas]

hey are the little white mites that crawl on their poop in my viv wood mites or predatory mite? i think they got in on my zilla tropical soil or isopod/ sprintail cultures. Im gonna be culturing the isopods and also not sure how to get sprintails out without taking mites too, but im switching to the bio dudes substrate and mixing in spagnum moss and bark. Cant seem to keep humidity well

[@The-Microverse]

Are you sure they are mites and not a type of springtails?! some don't have the spring so they run around and those are everywhere

[@readylucas]

@The-Microverse i have temperate springtails in there they are greyish or small and white. The things i found are more like really small white ticks. They have a round appearance vs the springtails which are more wormy.

[@The-Microverse]

So I just searched white round springtails and a picture that kinda looked like a tick popped up, type it on google and let me know if they look familiar ?!, also are they attacking or attaching to your pet life form?! 🤔

[@readylucas]

@The-Microverse no they just pile up on the poop. They just seem to outcompete the springtails themselves when it comes to getting to food and what not. I think you are thinking of globular speingtails and i wouldnt know without getting a closer look. The springtails i ordered and put in didnt have them in there either i think they just got in on the soil/bark/ect.

[@The-Microverse]

So mites are typically NOT detritivours, they usually feed on lifeforms, plants, insects and animals,not detritis and fecal matter, I could be wrong but I am 90 % sure they are a detritivour if not a local variety of springtails, but you would need a closer look to be able to identify

[@AquaticMoose]

Wow incredible job with every part of this! Very entertaining and well done, thank you for sharing. How old is he? Are you happy with the dimensions or do you think you will upgrade again in time?

[@The-Microverse]

That is high praise 😁, Illumi is about 3 years old now and I do want to upgrade him asap to a 4×2×2, I do think thats a good size for a full chonky noodle 😁

[@HyliRelaxed]

watch Hardcore as well!! great video

[@The-Microverse]

Much Gratitude fellow lifeform 😁

[@alliegator1372]

He is a beautiful happy sunshine boy🌞🍌, I would have kept the poop fall nothing worse then NOT being able to find it so easy . 😂forkasaur !

[@The-Microverse]

He is My Pride and Joy 😁, I Wanted too Keep it !!!, But 2 Pooper Falls Later 😭, with a pump it was like a Brown water feature, Not Pleasant to the eyes or The Nose 😅

[@ingeniouspixie]

I have not been able to keep creeping fig alive. 🙄

[@The-Microverse]

Whaaaaat?! There are hacks, I'm gonna do a creeping fig video soon 😁

[@laurenford7440]

"The vet isn't exotic" 🤣🤣

[@The-Microverse]

😅🤣

[@The-Microverse]

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