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▲ 2 r/Vivarium

I have a good number of springtails and various isopods in my bioactive vivarium. However, they stay in the lower area of the enclosure, inbetween the leaf litter. My neon day geckos like to hang off a branch to drop a load, which sometimes doesn't reach the bottom but rather lands on top of the bromeliads.

My enclosure itself doesn't smell at all, but the extraction fan pushes this nasty pet store reptile smell in the room. I assume those higher up droppings are the cause of this.

I prefer not to go with the spot cleaning round, so I was wondering if there's any isopods or other bugs that prefer to hang around in the drier and warmer regions of the tank and would deal with this?

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u/Kaasbeertje69 — 12 days ago
▲ 127 r/paludarium

Home to 4 vampire crabs and 10 Danio tinwini. Plants are hydrocotyle tripartita, Anubias nana and barteri, trident java ferns, bucephalandra, lobelia cardinalis, a few nerve plants, a couple no name ferns from the gardening store and false Aralia.

u/Kaasbeertje69 — 12 days ago
▲ 11 r/geckos

So I have a male and female neon day gecko/phelsuma klemmeri. I've had them for 5 months and they're both about 2 years old. They are usually extremely peaceful with each other. They shake their heads, run towards and then past each other and generally curiously follow each other around.

Since moving to a new enclosure 2 months ago I presume they are starting to display more breeding behavior. In addition to the twitching I have seen the male biting the female for a second or so. No chasing or anything. Just a small bite in the neck/throat after some intense head twitching.

Just now after sitting next to each other on the basking spot the entire day, they start roaming the tank, shared some food and all of a sudden it's on sight for the male. He ran from one end of the tank to the other to aggressively chase the female away. He actively showed her his back and got some intense colors on him. The female is now peeking out one of the bamboo poles with the male just looking at her. Is this part of their breeding behavior and to be expected?

Attached picture is the enclosure. 80x60x120 cm tall.

u/Kaasbeertje69 — 17 days ago