MIReptilian
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I have a very large indoor tortoise table for my trio of Hermanns. I also have a terrible problem with phorid flies, fungus nats or whatever you want to call them. It's really getting out of hand and the fly population seems to be growing exponentially..
My current substrate is a mix of coconut coir and topsoil with a top dressing of cypress mulch. As of this morning, I removed the cypress mulch as I'm thinking it may be the source of all the flies.
I'm probably going to redo my substrate sometime soon. I want to try a bioactive substrate but am not sure what the correct ratio of materials, layers etc might be.
Can someone give me a good suggestion as to how to start building bioactive substrate for a large tort table (56 square feet)?
Thanks
Jeff
My current substrate is a mix of coconut coir and topsoil with a top dressing of cypress mulch. As of this morning, I removed the cypress mulch as I'm thinking it may be the source of all the flies.
I'm probably going to redo my substrate sometime soon. I want to try a bioactive substrate but am not sure what the correct ratio of materials, layers etc might be.
Can someone give me a good suggestion as to how to start building bioactive substrate for a large tort table (56 square feet)?
Thanks
Jeff