Gnats

[shiannem1]

I have a ton of nats in my torts enclosure now. What do you suggest I do to get rid of them?

I do not leave food in the enclosure for more then a few hours and I clean up after my little one at least every other day.

I mist twice a day and stir up the dirt to make sure it’s not compacted to prevent molding.

They don’t seem to be hurting anything but I don’t want them to stay. I attached a pic of my little one just to have a picture
Thanks in advance.

 

[Tom]

There are several species of substrate flies, gnats, that move into the hospitable environment that we create in our enclosure for them. They are harmless detrivores and I just ignore them.

To get rid of them, you'll need to boil, bake, freeze or replace your substrate about every two weeks. More will always keep coming.

 

[Kristy1970]

I have a ton of nats in my torts enclosure now. What do you suggest I do to get rid of them?

I do not leave food in the enclosure for more then a few hours and I clean up after my little one at least every other day.

I mist twice a day and stir up the dirt to make sure it’s not compacted to prevent molding.

They don’t seem to be hurting anything but I don’t want them to stay. I attached a pic of my little one just to have a picture
Thanks in advance.
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I put a gnat/fly sticky trap way at top... keeps them under control, controlled myself too when I was changing water and it got stuck on my arm[emoji849]

 

[Kristy1970]

What a cute baby [emoji847].. my sulcata, Daisy was just over 100 grams a week ago, she feels a lot heavier now, need to weigh her when we get back home Wednesday from vacation, my daughter is tortoise sitting and can’t believe how much she eats and poos lol

 

[shiannem1]

There are several species of substrate flies, gnats, that move into the hospitable environment that we create in our enclosure for them. They are harmless detrivores and I just ignore them.

To get rid of them, you'll need to boil, bake, freeze or replace your substrate about every two weeks. More will always keep coming.

So do they ever irritate the torts?

 

[shiannem1]

What a cute baby [emoji847].. my sulcata, Daisy was just over 100 grams a week ago, she feels a lot heavier now, need to weigh her when we get back home Wednesday from vacation, my daughter is tortoise sitting and can’t believe how much she eats and poos lol

No joke they are eating pooping machines [emoji23]

 

[Tom]

So do they ever irritate the torts?

Not that I've ever seen.