Mr. Snakety snake's Bioactive palace
Ok, so I set up this vivarium a few months ago. It took quite a while because at the same time I was building a vivarium for my hognose snake as well. The Tank is 48"x18"x18" and mostly glass. I pulled and replaced the glass panel in the center top with plexiglass because it is easier for drilling and I honestly didn't plan ahead and drill before the tank was set up.
For equipment he has the mistking ultimate hooked up and timed for twice daily misting once in the morning for about 13 seconds right before the lights ramp on and the second at night just before the lights ramp down to moonlight. the light is a 48" current use satellite pro+ he is on a 12 hr cycle from 8 to 8 with 15 min ramps. He is sharing a herpstat 6 with my hognose that keeps the heat pads at both the hot and cool end controlled and controls and ramps the ceramic heat bulb in sync with the led lights. This keeps his parameters in check with the ambient room temp at 69 degrees. I am currently trying to devise a way to incorporate a canister filter to circulate under the false bottom and function as water feature/ water dish.
For soil/substrate I made a mix of sphagnum moss, peat moss, leaf litter, coco choir, orchid bark, small gravel, lugarti millipede substrate and feed, sand, marble dust (silt), and clay. I mixed that around until I got something I liked. it is 5-8 inches deep on top of grape wood, hardwood, and cork bark scraps like a hugelkultur. this is on top of a eggcrate falsebottom wrapped in three layers of fiberglass screen on 2 inches of lava rock.
The clean up crew is 5 isopod species, 3 species of springtail, 4 millipede species, and some micro crickets that I'm hoping someone can help identify. they sound way better than normal crickets to me.
the tank was aged about 5 months before he moved in. he moved in about a week ago and has eaten since then.
sorry bout the water spots.
what do you guys think?
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the pics aren't showing up for me, but it sounds really cool
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the pics aren't showing up for me, but it sounds really cool
what image hosting place do you guys use? and it is apparently too late to edit it. :/
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Looks great, I love all of the plants. Have you had any issues with your snake damaging the plants?
honestly I thought he would trash the plants and I would be constantly replacing or looking for stronger plants. but he is really careful and always tries to go around them rather than bulldozing. but I have lost a couple leaves here and there off of the wooly tradescantia. they are kinda fragile though.
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That looks amazing I've been looking for a fern to add to my tank for a while now but i can only find massive ones.
Love your set up
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That looks amazing I've been looking for a fern to add to my tank for a while now but i can only find massive ones.
Love your set up
I got my plants from local nurseries, I got lucky and a couple carry nursery stock for retail. Although when I build his upgrade I want it to be big enough for the big ferns like leather ferns and stuff.
Thanks guys. I'm glad you like it. I've got about 27 gallons of substrate left and a few spare tanks still laying around so there might be more to come.
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honestly I thought he would trash the plants and I would be constantly replacing or looking for stronger plants. but he is really careful and always tries to go around them rather than bulldozing. but I have lost a couple leaves here and there off of the wooly tradescantia. they are kinda fragile though.
so shortly after I made this proclamation of his character I fed him. upon returning him to his viv from feeding he decided to contradict every nice word I had said so the tank got a small re scape. and he stuck around to investigate.
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So can anyone help with the id of this cricket. it is not a pinhead. that is fully grown, and for reference those whitish balls are terrarium grass seeds. they were about the size of springtails when I first noticed them. there are about 3-4 of them in the tank and I really have no clue where they came from since everything down to the sand and wood was boiled and baked. the plants were washed transplanted and quarantined for a month. I am assuming they snuck in the with some of the clean up crew since I did source it from 3 different sources. I want more of them. they sing. and it doesn't sound like normal ol chirp chirp crickets. more like a long trill note that isn't as loud either. it sounds nice.
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