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Cage Info: Cage Type – Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) I have a reptizoo 24'' x 18'' x 36'' Reptile Terrarium This is a bit smaller than is ideal. The standard minimum is 2x2x4’. I’ve upgraded mine to double sized and after seeing how much my chameleons use all of the space...

Oooh how fun! I feel like they cuteness will get to me as well 😭 are the fruit flys to feed the mantids?

...get living in there. Then I have some in a bin. I wish my other ooths would hatch. I finally gave in and watered some of the plants around the house and in some enclosures with mosquito bits, which has worked. I had soil gnats everywhere. When they start swimming in my coffee, they’ve gone...

wowza🤩, thanks for the reply!! they look like aliens up close 😂

Yep gnats are in every soil, even if you buy new soil from the store. They live in moist conditions, what you can do is treat the soil with 1 parts hydrogen peroxide and 3 parts water, water the plants with it, then place sand, then river rocks on top, that way it the gnats ever return they will...

Yay! They are cute. Are you going to be able to feed them to your chameleon though? The two ooths I’ve had hatch haven’t been enough to do much for my soil gnat problem. It didn’t help that as soon as I put them into my enclosures, my chameleons found and ate them. There’s one left (that I can...

One more thing, what wattage do I need?

...immediately go after some when they saw them. The ooths hatch out hundreds of babies and it seems their instinct is to climb up high. The soil gnats went away for a long time, so they were effective. I took a few pics of them after they had grown a bit. No longer recall how many molts they...

I read putting them in a water bottle and spraying the soil is the best way to use it. But again not sure how it effects the CUC

Bc I don’t have too many since my soil has only been in there for about 2.5 weeks maybe less.

This is a common problem and one which I’m in a seemingly never ending battle against. All but a few of my reptile enclosures are bioactive and I have extra plants too. I’m even finding a population of them in the garage with my roach bins (also bioactive) and hanging out with my crickets. I...

i’d love to hatch them out in my cage, but unfortunately i had to learn the hard way that making holes in the screen isn’t the way to attach branches. I’ve ordered 20 screen repair kits from framchams but that still wasn’t enough to cover all the holes 😅, so i can’t let any tiny insects out or...

So very glad that she’s doing better. 😊 I think sometimes I worry as much for other’s chameleons as much as for my own. Soil gnats are rotten and no joke to try and get rid of. Keep in mind that I have 4 chameleons and they are all in bioactive enclosures, so my battle with gnats is doomed. I...

I mist her i closure once in the morning before work before the lights come on i got a timed switch so im going to aim for misting it about 30 minutes to an hour before her lights come on and then i mist again right after i cut off her lights. Ok, but maybe mist about 15 minutes or so before...

yes i will! I’ve tried feeding the smaller ones to todo and for whatever reason he just couldn’t see them or wasn’t interested in them. so i plan to feed them until they’re a little bigger but not big enough to hurt my boy, but i do also plan on keeping some as pets lol

This is why we strip the soil off the plants roots and repot in organic soil. You may get some tiny gnats with the new soil. But they go through a few months cycle then die off. If you have not yet reading through this husbandry program will help a lot...

Hey everyone! Hope you’re all doing well. I have a couple botany questions I wanted to ask the pros here. After butchering the majority of my pothos and nursing some clippings back to health and getting a couple new plants, I can say that I am doing OK with the plant care side of chameleon...

Yeaaaaah, that being said i would propagate the wandering Jew clippings first so they have roots incase you forget to water, they root so easy and mine is next to all the other plants I have to water so hopefully i don’t forget 😂 but I’ve definitely killed more then I’ve kept alive, I honestly...

I struggle with gnats between houseplants yard plants chameleon enclosure but hands down the worst culprit is my isopod tubs. I've used the bits with mixed results I feel like it's a war long and hard fought you need to win the numbers game and kill as many of the gnats as possible and...

Yeah even with research... You will find things you like better and redo stuff lol. FYI all soil comes with the gnats..... Does not matter what you do. They cycle and hatch for a few months then tend to die off completely. Unless you bake your soil you will end up dealing with them. And baking...