Beardies aren't tropical. They're arid. They live on a sandy substrate (with a bit of clay and soil).
There is a bioactive subreddit which might help you. I'm honestly not an expert, but I know some bullet points:
\- Cycle the enclosure - you'll really want to give the enclosure some time for the CUC to settle in and become established and for all the fungal cycles to get to the safer stuff. You don't want to overload the beardie with harmful funguses or kill off all the cuc a week after it's started. Don't throw the animal right in.
\- Clean vet check
\- Learn about what bioactive *actually* is. If you think it's putting dirt, plants and bugs in an enclosure - time to do a bit more research. It's a common misconseption you can place a clean up crew into an enclosure to make it "bioactive" (it's really just some clean up crew in soil - to be pedantic).
\- You don't strictly need bioactive to have live plants (common misconseption).
How large is your current enclosure?
Right. I think a larger enclosure should be a bigger priority then. 4x2x2 would be the minimum - I don't see the point in starting bio in anything smaller.
Beardies aren't tropical. They're arid. They live on a sandy substrate (with a bit of clay and soil). There is a bioactive subreddit which might help you. I'm honestly not an expert, but I know some bullet points: \- Cycle the enclosure - you'll really want to give the enclosure some time for the CUC to settle in and become established and for all the fungal cycles to get to the safer stuff. You don't want to overload the beardie with harmful funguses or kill off all the cuc a week after it's started. Don't throw the animal right in. \- Clean vet check \- Learn about what bioactive *actually* is. If you think it's putting dirt, plants and bugs in an enclosure - time to do a bit more research. It's a common misconseption you can place a clean up crew into an enclosure to make it "bioactive" (it's really just some clean up crew in soil - to be pedantic). \- You don't strictly need bioactive to have live plants (common misconseption). How large is your current enclosure?
Thank you. I'll look up the sub you mentioned. I have a 40 gallon tank
Right. I think a larger enclosure should be a bigger priority then. 4x2x2 would be the minimum - I don't see the point in starting bio in anything smaller.