Re: Bio-Active Substrate for Reptiles
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distaff
Potos is pretty tough, so is Hedera Helix (English ivy). IIRC, SnakeJudy esp. likes dracanea (looks sort of like a miniature corn plant - what Europeans are more like to know as maise).
I agree about the sheds. I live in high NM desert. Before I switched the cornsnake, he was having a very hard time with shedding. Cornsnakes are indigenous to the humid South Eastern US. His last shed was perfect. I got a magnet, and hung it as a trophy on the fridge.
He's managed to kill a pothos and three hedera. I'm getting him a new enclosure within the next couple months though, and this time around the plants will have a chance to get established before Cassidy starts trampling them.
I also clear out the waste pretty much as soon as it's made. If necessary, a tear down and rebuild would be time consuming but not expensive. And, as I understand it, this works similar to fish tanks in that waste is converted to nitrates within the soil. The plants are supposed to be what processes the nitrates, but since I don't have any in this tank, I think I'll likely need to do some soil changes.
Arcadia is putting out a book on this authored by a veterinarian which I'm interested in reading. There's not much written about this and it will be interesting to see what this one has to say.
