Can Bioactive Setups be Successful with Fake Plants?

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...Keep in mind that isopods cannot legally or with any degree of environmental responsibility be released anywhere in the US without a permit (which USDA is unlikely to issue; isopods are invasive), so using them complicates substrate disposal (you can't compost it, for example). Freezing or fully drying the substrate, then double bagging and putting in the trash, is generally thought acceptable.

This is a good note about the pods I wasn't aware of, thanks!

See, I wasn't either- I've never seriously considered bio-active enclosures, but I never realized these "little critters" weren't native & that they're invasive, etc.