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I’ve cleaned my lay bin and remade the soil sand mixture over 3 times now because it keeps getting infested with gnats. Is this okay? They’re small and I honestly don’t care they’re in their hit it concerns me cuz she’s going to be laying in it. Any advice? Lol

Phorid would be pretty unlikely in a cham enclosure. They mostly feed on decaying protein. Probably soil gnats.

Interesting I might invest in one just to have it. I finished adding new umbrella tree to my cage earlier so hoping that took care of most of them . Mantis ooths huh?? That's sweet ! I don't know much about mantids but I'm assuming they won't cause any harm to the chams & guessing the chams can...

You could be over watering and definitely not enough air flow. Wet soil + stagnant air will bring these little fungus gnats. I learned this information years back from a Mistking rep at a show he suggested I install a small pc fan above the cage to encourage air flow. Within a week or so no more...

I do, a bunch i was looking that up too. But i looked up fruit flies larvae 🤔

I have 2 small issues going on with my plants. 1 is fungus gnats and the other is plants showing signs of overwatering. The gnats are a result of the overwatered wet soil and once I figure out how to decrease the amount of water getting into my soil, both problems should be solved. I've read...

I have so many they're getting annoying lmao. You can can some mosquito bits that you put on top of the soil under the rocks. It's safe for animals just make sure you cover the soil & bits well with rocks.

As many of you know, I highly suggest keeping sundews(if possible) to eliminate soil/fungus gnats. Fruit and phorid flies are a different story. Anyway, if you can't keep some sundews for whatever reason and need another natural and safe way of eliminating them you may want to give these beetles...

How hard would u say it is to keep the sundew alive? And where would I keep them, worried/I know my girl would try to take a bite out of one

Placed on top. As the plant gets watered, the bacterium that kills the fungus gnats, mosquitos, and larvae of both spreads through the soil, killing them. It's safe for animals, pets, people, fish, etc. too!

I'll try the cinnamon for now and look into the other stuff. I also plan on repotting everything later this week and getting more plants for backup in case I need to switch anything out. And change up my plant placement.

Do the chams ever snack on them or are they too tiny ? Lol

May freeze the plant. Remove top soil where eggs are hatching before u try the new stuff you got. I put screen over top soil and fine chiffon cloth which helps. Also vacuum up the ones that are flying around so the dont lay again. With daily diligence you should get it under control within a...

My t5 HO is linear and is approximately 6 inches from the highest branch. So the repashy calcium plus itself everyday will not do it? I did have a croton live plant but quickly got gnat larvae in soil. I had rocks over the soil which I had also switched to organic soil. So I didn’t want to risk...

Ooooh chameleons can eat them! Idk that

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264978315469 Both hatched and cleared up my soil gnat problem.

A little update. I bought food grade diatomaceous earth and I'm gonna put it on the tops of my soil today. Also got a Katchy to put outside the cage at night. I thought about getting isopods, but living in an apartment I don't like the idea of them possibly escaping the enclosure. (Ironically...

Sooo dumb question. I know you said on top. But on top of soil, under rocks. Or on top of soil & rocks? I'm assuming on top of soil under rocks. But I figured asking so I get it right the first time. Lol also these are harmless for them to eat right? Cause I've seen him eat a couple lol

...plants (Sundews in particular) might kill two gnats with one boulder (or something like that... :rolleyes:) Here are some previous threads to get started: https://www.chameleonforums.com/search/1078846/?q=gnat+control&o=relevance We are talking about soil gnats, right? soil gnat control

Okay thank you so much ♡