"Hey babe wake up, Robby finally posted a new vid" lmao Awesome video man, i've been seeing other people do these bioactive bins but i haven't seen anyone use this method, i think this is an awesome idea!
@@robbysreptiles of course dude, you just keep making things easier for breeders, first the container store bins and now this! Please keep the knowledge coming cause I’m so here for it 💯💪🏾
Yes! You answered a question I had. I'm looking to do my first bioactive setup and I balked at the prices of the isopods. "Can't I just get some pill bugs from my yard??" Good to know that the answer is yes! More money I can spend on the gecko and necessary bits and bobs.
I was wondering how your semi bioactive bins were doing! Thanks for the update. I literally was looking at my bins yesterday after cleaning thinking I need to convert these to semi bioactive. Now I’m definitely going to do it! The time saving alone from not having to clean as often will be well worth it! Great video!
Yes. But I don't want to spray the whole enclosure with it. I found drying it out was the best option. Soaking the whole soil with it just didn't seem like a good idea. For isopods it works great though
This helped me so much and when I needed to dampen the substrate I would use the "tea" and when spraying the animal I just used a bit of regular water. I was surprised at the time ( a few years ago) that this product wasn't more well known. But the best defense is to not get them in the first place lol.
I believe plants qualify something as bioactive alongside the CUC because the isopods and springtails only remove the 💩 waste and not the urine bits that contain nitrates and therefore ammonia. The plant roots help keep the soil clean and healthy. Sometimes you can have isopod colony crashes due to this with ammonia poisoning in the soil. Shouldn’t be too much of an issue though since the geckos can’t access it! (And sorry if this is boring info. I had to do a bunch of research for my Pacman frog since they are so sensitive to soil/water health lol)
Awesome video! A few questions 1. Do any of the isopods or springtails get out? 2. Do any of the isopods or springtails get into the lay box and eat at the eggs?
Great vid! You can use mosquito bits / BTI to eradicate fungus gnats. It's a bacteria that only affects the larval stage of mosquitos and fungus gnats and isn't harmful to isopods, springtails, you or your geckos. I personally buy mosquito dunks and put them in my sprayer and I've not seen any for years. :)
I keep my baby crested in a bioactive tub while his permanent bioactive grows in. I learned a long time ago with my hognose, bioactive is awesome. I can understand why breeders don’t go that route though. Looks like you’ve got bioactive/large scale breeder problem solved!
thats insane. ive been using dividers like that for a while. you can get that that plastic from home depot and cut so the gecko wont lay outside the lay box
This is great! I still have not been able to find these really big pool noodles that you have. Can you provide a link or say where you got them please?
Thanks for the informative video. I've never kept a bioactive setup. Is there a point the soil will reach that it will be over saturated with the cleanup crews poop?
@@robbysreptiles great I will try to find that video, I must have missed that one. I am going to look into designing 3d printed bottoms instead of cutting each of these to fit
If you get the biggest size available it has a gap in the back as well as the smaller ones do. I see you are using the medium for your adults now so that makes a lot more sense.
Hey Robby, I just tried to order Magic soil from the link, but they don't ship. Did you know they are in store pick-up only? Good if you live in Texas I guess. Do you have any other recommendations on soil?
Just any kind of organic soil with lots of good stuff in it. You want it to smell like manure. And preferably none of those green balls in them that are just chemical fertilizers
Sometimes geckos die trying to hatch out of the egg. Failure to thrive, so I don't let them go to waste and will feed them off to either my snapping turtle or isopods that enjoy protien
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"Hey babe wake up, Robby finally posted a new vid" lmao Awesome video man, i've been seeing other people do these bioactive bins but i haven't seen anyone use this method, i think this is an awesome idea!
Thank you man!
@@robbysreptiles of course dude, you just keep making things easier for breeders, first the container store bins and now this! Please keep the knowledge coming cause I’m so here for it 💯💪🏾
Yes! You answered a question I had. I'm looking to do my first bioactive setup and I balked at the prices of the isopods. "Can't I just get some pill bugs from my yard??" Good to know that the answer is yes! More money I can spend on the gecko and necessary bits and bobs.
Get them then culture them for a few months to make sure there isn't any pesticides or other garbage in em
Very good video my friend. Excellent coverage of the bioactive topic and so much more.
eyyy finally!! been waiting for this video!!!! def gonna turn my container store bins into bio active!
I was wondering how your semi bioactive bins were doing! Thanks for the update. I literally was looking at my bins yesterday after cleaning thinking I need to convert these to semi bioactive. Now I’m definitely going to do it! The time saving alone from not having to clean as often will be well worth it! Great video!
I should have mentioned in the video but the SMELL is so much better! No more gecko piss smell. Just smells like earth now
@@robbysreptilesanother bonus!!
Mosquitobits work like magic for fungus gnats
Yes. But I don't want to spray the whole enclosure with it. I found drying it out was the best option. Soaking the whole soil with it just didn't seem like a good idea. For isopods it works great though
This helped me so much and when I needed to dampen the substrate I would use the "tea" and when spraying the animal I just used a bit of regular water. I was surprised at the time ( a few years ago) that this product wasn't more well known. But the best defense is to not get them in the first place lol.
I believe plants qualify something as bioactive alongside the CUC because the isopods and springtails only remove the 💩 waste and not the urine bits that contain nitrates and therefore ammonia. The plant roots help keep the soil clean and healthy. Sometimes you can have isopod colony crashes due to this with ammonia poisoning in the soil. Shouldn’t be too much of an issue though since the geckos can’t access it! (And sorry if this is boring info. I had to do a bunch of research for my Pacman frog since they are so sensitive to soil/water health lol)
Nope this is great info! I knew the plants had to play a role somehow but for this situation in a tub it just isn't feesable without uvb lighting
Awesome video! A few questions
1. Do any of the isopods or springtails get out?
2. Do any of the isopods or springtails get into the lay box and eat at the eggs?
They do not escape if you didn't drill holes in the front low on the enclosure. And the springtails will not eat fresh eggs only rotten ones
Can't wait to do this for my guinea pig
Finally! Another video! Thanks for sharing this info!
I know sorry for the break lol
Great vid! You can use mosquito bits / BTI to eradicate fungus gnats. It's a bacteria that only affects the larval stage of mosquitos and fungus gnats and isn't harmful to isopods, springtails, you or your geckos. I personally buy mosquito dunks and put them in my sprayer and I've not seen any for years. :)
Yes I did this with great success in my isopod bins. However I didn't want to spray it all over the geckos in case there would be an adverse effects
I keep my baby crested in a bioactive tub while his permanent bioactive grows in. I learned a long time ago with my hognose, bioactive is awesome. I can understand why breeders don’t go that route though. Looks like you’ve got bioactive/large scale breeder problem solved!
That was the goal!
love this info Robbie, going to start setting this up ASAP lol
Glad to hear it!
Hi Robby how do you glue the insulation tube to the back of the container? Thank you bro
Hot glue
thats insane. ive been using dividers like that for a while. you can get that that plastic from home depot and cut so the gecko wont lay outside the lay box
Yeah I said that in the video
Or use large rocks that they cannot move as a drainage layer.
Still removes a few inches of height in the encloshre
With the Armadillidium vulgare do you have to use the wild type
Nope! I've got albino, magic potion, peach, and more that work fine!
This is great! I still have not been able to find these really big pool noodles that you have. Can you provide a link or say where you got them please?
They aren't available online sadly. I get mine at ace hardware, and only 1 location has them
Is there any other soils that can work just out of curiosity 🤔
Yes any soil that is fully organic
@@robbysreptilesThank you I am going to check home depot out to see if they have any fully organic soils😊
Thats a really good idea!
Thanks for the informative video. I've never kept a bioactive setup.
Is there a point the soil will reach that it will be over saturated with the cleanup crews poop?
Probably, I plan to clean them all out once a year and do full soil replacements
How often are you spraying? This is a great idea!
I spray 3x a week!
@@robbysreptiles
Thank you for information.
I wonder geckos can get enough water.
How many hours it takes for droplets to dry out?
@@Peto.J I have done this for about 5 years now and none have gotten dehydrated when Sprayed at least 2x a week :)
Such a good video!
Thank you!
May I ask what you use for lay boxes and what substrate you put in?
Did you watch the video? And I have a video on lay boxes
@@robbysreptiles yup found it afterwards, Great stuff dude 👍
How do you stick those mushroom decorations to the sides of your tubs?
Stainless steel screws
@@robbysreptiles thank you
Out lf curiosity i bought a few of the tubs that you are using and i have noticed the gaps in the back, have you ever had issues with those?
I have a video directly talking about issues some have thought would arise, they are not issues
@@robbysreptiles great I will try to find that video, I must have missed that one. I am going to look into designing 3d printed bottoms instead of cutting each of these to fit
Interesting, let me know how that goes
So they changed the design from the tubs that you have to the tubs that I just got in today @@robbysreptiles
If you get the biggest size available it has a gap in the back as well as the smaller ones do. I see you are using the medium for your adults now so that makes a lot more sense.
Fabulous info 👍🏻
Thanks!
Hey Robby, I just tried to order Magic soil from the link, but they don't ship. Did you know they are in store pick-up only? Good if you live in Texas I guess. Do you have any other recommendations on soil?
Just any kind of organic soil with lots of good stuff in it. You want it to smell like manure. And preferably none of those green balls in them that are just chemical fertilizers
Would these work for gargoyle geckos?
Probably
What’s the easiest way to cut the dividers?
Scissors
I’m sorry did you say you feed hatchlings to the dairy cows?
Sometimes geckos die trying to hatch out of the egg. Failure to thrive, so I don't let them go to waste and will feed them off to either my snapping turtle or isopods that enjoy protien
@@robbysreptiles Survival of the fittest it seems. I do agree about the dairy cows being calcium monsters. I think they’d be great feeders too.
@Adr1anB1azer they're one of my staple feeders, they're geeat!
Love this!
Thank you!
How do you deal with soil mite??!!!
The only mites I know of are the kind that eat fungus gnat larvae and springtails
Do the springtails or isopods damage the eggs at all? Sometimes it takes me a few days to check for eggs
They do not!
make sure to use dwarf isopods. dwarf whites can eat eggs but usually dont unless they start to mold.
Fungus gnats will cycle out as the CUC population grows and out competes them for resources.
Any drainage layer?
Did you watch the video?
Do you have info on your enclosures?
Already made videos about them
Did you close your website?
I was messing with some settings so it may be down I'll get it back up though
I love Robby
Sorry I'm married
@@robbysreptiles 🥲🥲🥲
I read the thumbnail as radioactive 💀💀💀😭
Based
Brilliant
Appreciated 🙏
jesus... i would NOT want to be a breeder's gecko in those enclosures. i'll take New Caledonia, thank you.
Please don't use the lords name in vain :)
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Too little space for an adult gecko
Okay