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I would be interested in knowing if springtails would too...although I have a lot in there and haven't seen a decline in numbers...?
Please keep the ideas coming, I have been chatting with folks at nursery's, frog forums etc...but no luck except for the mantid eggs I found at my nursery.
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get a bucket fill it with water and your choice of gnatrol or pyretherin concentrate
dip your plant bucket(not the foilage) in it two to three good times and let sit outdoors til dry repeat the next day and then one week later if you really want to be sure you can do it again a week after that. We treat this way because when you treat you are only killing the larvae(or maybe its you are only killing the adults) leaving the others to come up and continue reproducing either way you must treat a few times to completely eradicate all cycles of life, from the preggo females down to the morphing larvae before you replace your plant with your cham, you will want to flush thouroughly these fungus gnats are annoying as could be and damn fast but are pretty much harmless to everything except your plant roots the main thing they are hinting to you is you don't have enough flow in your soil and your plants are probably not drying out fast enough enough. these bugs need water for survival so if your misting is frequent that is most likely your problem. so maybe a more porous mix that will allow better water flow, such as mixing soil and coco coir 80/20 ratio and maybe raise your plants off the floor |
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yes gnatrol is relatively safe!
the component in it was created by israeli scientist, its a bacteria that feeds on the larvae or something like that washes out in a rinse plus on top of that, your chameleons don't really go into the rootzone, so as long as you flush it good you'll be absolutely fine |
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