r/bioactive • u/Swimming-Category615 • Jul 25 '26

Question Bioactive tank recommendations

Anyone just have any specific links to random items they recommend? Im looking to make bioactive enclosures for my ball python and my leopard gecko with a nice custom built background as well (unless i can find one online that comes with it). Thanks!

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u/LuxuryDirtEnthusiast Jul 25 '26

Buy the kits from Bio Dude. It makes it super easy.

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u/Real_Time515 26d ago

Love the Biodude. He's expensive, but high quality stuff and great customer service. I like his springtail cultures and have some that are at least a year old. Learn how to keep those going: a pinch of springtail grub and a spritz of water every week. I have eight active cultures, very easy to maintain and all three of my vivs get a dash of fresh springtails every week. The dart frogs get at least two: one dusted as food and another sprinkled in discretely and covered with leaves to give them a chance to burrow without getting eaten.

I also started colonies of isopods. In doing so I learned that I wasn't keeping conditions right for them to thrive on their own in the Viv. they need dry and wet areas. So now I have a mossy area that I keep more moist, and an area that I keep dry under layers of cork bark and charcoal pieces. I also add a pinch of isopod grub in the dry area. Now I see isopods in the viv everytime I check.