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In the enclosures I have for species that live in high humidity parts of the world I give them two hides.
One more or less 'dry' with no added water, it is shelter without 'extra' humidity perhaps like under some tree bark in the wild.
Then I have another hide that is filled with coco chunks or cypress mulch, and then filled with water, so that it is a hide swamp with standing water. I change the water out periodically, but not so often that I avoid sewer flies.
The tortoises value the swamp hide so much they leave it to defecate in their water bowl.
So here is the problem, sooner or later sewer flies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodidae
get in every swamp, and they then move to other swamps, without washing their feet, that concerns me a great deal.
I am considering using mosquito dunks http://www.summitchemical.com/mosquito/mosquito-dunks/
Have you used them with aquatic turtles?
Do you know if they will kill sewer flies too?
The product is not an insecticide but rather a biological control utilizing bacteria. It can be used in farming situations that are certified organic.
I'd like to hear a pro active voice, if it is here, saying "yeah, I use them, no apparent harm." Or perhaps like other strange freak things, tortoises are the one group of vertebrates that don't co-exists well with that bacteria - ala Teflon and birds.
Will
One more or less 'dry' with no added water, it is shelter without 'extra' humidity perhaps like under some tree bark in the wild.
Then I have another hide that is filled with coco chunks or cypress mulch, and then filled with water, so that it is a hide swamp with standing water. I change the water out periodically, but not so often that I avoid sewer flies.
The tortoises value the swamp hide so much they leave it to defecate in their water bowl.
So here is the problem, sooner or later sewer flies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodidae
get in every swamp, and they then move to other swamps, without washing their feet, that concerns me a great deal.
I am considering using mosquito dunks http://www.summitchemical.com/mosquito/mosquito-dunks/
Have you used them with aquatic turtles?
Do you know if they will kill sewer flies too?
The product is not an insecticide but rather a biological control utilizing bacteria. It can be used in farming situations that are certified organic.
I'd like to hear a pro active voice, if it is here, saying "yeah, I use them, no apparent harm." Or perhaps like other strange freak things, tortoises are the one group of vertebrates that don't co-exists well with that bacteria - ala Teflon and birds.
Will