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    Bioactive is just not something you want to do with zero previous experience in that field of hobby keeping. It is similar to live plant fresh water aquariums and coral reef salt water tanks. They are both very advanced husbandry care as is a healthy self contained bioactive terrestrial cage done correctly.

    Just throwing springtails in a sanitary enclosure will do nothing but kill springtails. They don't raise humidity nor sanitize the enclosure without very specific conditions that require far more work and understanding that most people want to give. Add in that ball pythons specifically are environmentally destructive in a closed cage and that the individual husbandry requirements for tropical plants (the type you would keep), micro and invertebrate organism, and the snake it self are not always kosher with each other.

    If you want to do a bioactive, start small and learn what you need to do by doing. The people you watch that do these setups have tons of prior experience that facilitates them being able to do this and even they still fail (that is the nature of these setups). Don't just throw yourself into something over your head and risk endangering your snake in the process through experimentation because you saw a cool video or setup at an expo. Oh yeah and it can get pretty expensive if you don't already have experience with the individual components of this type of system (plants, humidity, organisms, soil, drainage, etc).
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