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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...

Thank you so much! Just trying not to get water in my plants and some traps outside are helping so far. I just wanted to update you. She is doing amazing now!! Eating so much better. The full throttle feeder is working now. She knows that’s where her food is and realizes it’s easier than...

...remains in the closet...and the weight of the enclosures was crazy and almost impossible to move. Make sure everything can be accessed without needing to move your enclosure! There were soil gnats, but I’m having more of a problem with them now from my non-bioactive enclosures than ever before.

So the mosquito bits are safe to use and won’t harm the isopods or springtails?

I prefer Butterworts. Less sticky but catch every. single. gnat. Right in enclosure up high under lights; even Mellers does not destroy and they bloom continuously. (Of course a veiled could eat it). I'll take a pic tonight of some covered in bugs and send. If you are misting with distilled...

Oh i didnt think about the weight of the enclosure. I am going to have to wait to do bioactive then because my enclosures are in a room that is not completed so I'll need to finish that first, then do the bioactive.....sad face. Thank you so much!

The times I've over watered, soil gnats appear. I scale back mistings and they disappear :)

yes, i didn’t think you’d be so right but i almost feel guilty for feeding these cuties to my boy🥲, but i moved them into a 20 gallon tub so i hope that’ll help with the cannibalism. You think they’ll be okay for a couple days without food right? I have fruit flies otw, but i tried putting...

A fun way to help with soil gnats in your enclosure is to hatch out a mantis ooth. The baby mantids will eat the gnats and your chameleon will have fun hunting down the mantids. Or you could hatch out the ooth in a container and daily release some mantids in the enclosure so that they (mantids)...

Thank you, there seems to be a lot of elements when caring for a chameleon, I think I might get a beardie first so I can get some experience before getting a chameleon. I don't wanna do something wrong and cause the chameleon any pain or suffering cause I wasn't equipped enough.

Springtails would be my guess too, but I know little about bugs. Have you checked your plants, including the undersides of leaves for pests? Are you seeing any soil gnats?

I’m just not sure where to get sundews. I’ve never seen them in the stores. I live in Maine and I know they grow here but I’m not able to walk on uneven ground very well to go find them.

Note.... Hibiscus are great... I have two of them in Beman's cage. but you have to have a high powered light like a jungle dawn LED bar or sansi for them to bloom. Gnats are in the soil... In literally any plant you buy and any bag of potting soil. Organic or not they have them. Moisture build...