i think the duration of the “terrarium cycling” (for lack of better words lol) would be dependent upon the biome that’s intended to be replicated which is to say i think arid biomes like savannahs and deserts would take less time than more tropical biomes like rainforests, etc - i started my BP enclosure now in her juvie tank primarily because i am slowly experimenting with ideas but i think it’s really a final enclosure sort of project so if you started now by the time the snake hits adulthood and would need their final tank you would be good already
i absolutely think it’s a mark of achievement for an aquarium or terrarium to be a self-sustaining ecosystem with or without the fish/snake
back on topic - spotted pythons and BPs seem to inhabit the same general biome (savannahs) in Australia/Central Africa and also, seem to have identical niches re: lifeways - preferring rocky crevices, rocky outcrops, abandoned termite mounds, abandoned rodent burrows, etc
using Kaufman’s doc on the BP’s natural environment we can see that outside of grasses there is not a tremendous amount of foliage (i actually have some mosses that work really well simulating deserty grass patches) so primarily what i think we’re looking at is substrate composition, what can said composition do for the enclosure and how can it best replicate nature, beneficial fauna like isopods, etc - i would say the same could be said of SPs
^which makes me wonder what failed BP bioactive tanks were trying to accomplish because trying to cultivate flora which couldn’t survive in an African savannah seems doomed to fail from the start in all do respects you know
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