BPs in bioreactive vivaria?

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So I've seen a few people mention keeping BPs in vivariums, and I searched the forums for "vivarium" but didn't see much relevant on the first page.

I currently have two extremely involved vivariums, both with sumps, intense filtration, lots of live plants, and terrestrial, aquatic, and vermiculate (spelling--worms!) animals. One is a vaguely south east asian swamp, and the other is a stream-side enclosure for my spengeri.

So anyway, I'm really into this stuff. But it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense to me for BPs to live in vivaria. The main issue being that BP excrement is not exactly what I'd want in my compost pile. In my other tanks there are things that eat the poop and I don't have to clean up so much, outside of regular water and filter maintenance. Also, turtles and frogs are happy being all muddy and gunky and having bugs and anthropods (which they eat) crawling around, whereas it seems helpful to keep snakes clean.

And in most vivaria, it'd be impossible to sterilize the way we do when doing regular tank cleanings for BPs.

So who actually does this? And how? (Feel free to link me to other threads I didn't find.)

We compromise... We create the look of a vibrant viv using plastic things and spend extra time cleaning it. So yeah, 6 snakes for me is almost to the max. I can maybe add 2 more but that's about it. I don't want to spend the entire Saturday cleaning!