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You want to keep it a clean, bare, and free from any standing water shortly after it gets wet. Rocks are great. Identity the plant, get some some rocks. Gnats are a canary telling you to cut back on the volume of water. Plants gotta breathe, but the mulch and any soil exposure is just a really...

Are they soil gnats or fruit flies? The way you get rid of them will depend on this.

I can’t add much to this, other than to advise not to put anything at all on the plant’s leaves, especially with a veiled. I clean plants down to bare root before using. If I get soil gnats, I’ve found mosquito bits work great. For other pests, I look for predatory insects that my cham can eat.

That's so terrible. Soil gnats feel so quaint in comparison. That picture of all those bugs just clustered together like that is just dreadful to imagine!

I agree that Hibiscus can be fussy. They're bushy and attractive but need care. They're a bit more delicate for a cham to climb around on too, especially if your cham likes to munch on them. A Schefflera tends to be a sturdier choice for a cham habitat. A dwarf citrus tree too, but once again...

What about the gnats? Does it effect them?

Fruit flies won’t be attracted to sundews. Fruit flies have the red eyes. Can’t speak for the other methods. Figured they were all suited more for soil gnats

What's worked and hasn't worked for you to rid these blasted pests? I've tried... 1) drying the heck out of the soil between watering, until my plants are desperately sad; 2) added the yellow traps and 1-2 inches of sand over all of the surfaces; 3) pot poppers (nemetoteds); 4)...

Drosera capensis crush the soil gnats for me. Fast growers that spread as well. I have a pretty large plant collection and no signs of gnats. I keep sundews currently on my pet crab’s tank filled with plants and soil… occasionally a gnat pops out and goes straight to the sundews.

I have the dreaded gnats in my cricket and roach bins, but they aren’t the phorid flies…just soil gnats or fruit flies. To make life easier for my pet sitter when I went away, I set up my crickets bioactively (the roaches were already bioactive). Well, I guess the sitter put out too much food...

They are probably soil gnats and are the bane of our existence as chameleon keepers. There are solutions though, but not one is going to be 100%. I have 5 double sized bioactive enclosures, 3 leopard gecko bioactive tanks, a couple of bins of extra isopods and even keep my roach colony...

Definitely fruit flies. I have some in other parts of my house… but I have no idea how they ended up in here. 😅

Hey guys so, I got a female panther chameleon from a pretty well respected breeder and sadly just two weeks after I got her, she died. And I love chameleons a lot, and definitely want to get another one at some point but I really want to make sure that my husbandry is on point before I do. I'll...

We must all have different gnats because my carnivorous plants wipe out any and I have a plants and trees in nearly every room of my house lol. Haven’t had gnats in almost 10 years now and I’m constantly bringing in new plants plus have a huge crab tank filled with moist humid soil.

I have hatched out mantis ooths in my enclosures to help control the soil gnats. They make a dent in the gnat population before my chameleons eat them all. I feel kind of bad for the mantis babies as they just don’t have any chance. I’ve ‘saved’ some and grown them out of curiosity/interest and...

...right season for it, but if you get a mantis ooth and hatch it out in your chams enclosure, it’ll provide some nice enrichment and snacks as your guy hunts down the baby mantids. That’s also a nice way to help control if you have soil gnats. I also like to let my bsfl pupate into fun flying...

...- One of my plants (despite being quarantined) developed a fungus gnat infection and there was often some gnats in the cage. It happens. Soil gnats are inescapable. - One day, because I think my humidity was too high, I noticed that the branches had some kind of dark surface on them (I think...

Well I cover the soil of all plants with Saran Wrap. You can still water them by pulling it back and replacing it. Then I vacuum up the rest. I also had luck with putting soft foam on top of the screen next to the lights. They went thru the screen then got trapped in the foam.

I can’t bear to watch that video. Will a fully grown mantis wipe out the pests or do you need their hatchlings? I know for soil gnats, I get mantis ootheca and let it hatch out inside my enclosures. Of course, my chams are very efficient at making sure no mantids survive long.

...a fully grown mantis with a chameleon…one of them will end up bitten and probably eaten and I’m not sure which one it would be. Both are ambush predators and where chameleons have those eyes and tongue, mantids are efficient and fierce. This year I’m using mosquito bits to control the soil gnats.