Those setups looks amazing. I've got a bioactive enclosure for my Northern and its been going quite well. The burrow under the basking slate looks really nice here. I tried to do something similar for mine but he would always burrow around it until the slate started falling into the burrow. Wish I could get native Australian plants like those here in the US so easily.
Thank you so much! I’m going to do an update on the enclosures soon - most of the native plants didn’t work out too well. I really like the basking slate too, he has made a good little burrow under it
Hey there!! All of my bioactive tanks are native to the animals region (for the most part) and I've found a few little successes here and there. Sourcing has been a nightmare of course, but I found the easiest way is to integrate yourself into your local plant community. A lot of my native species have been special ordered by an awesome nursery we have in town, but I trade and buy on FB groups a lot too and have made some friends in the process around the country with better resources and networking than myself. The only way I can keep them is to have source plants to propagate, so I have way too much houseplants but I rarely lose a species and it's helped me learn the growing patterns of the plants. I recommend a dedicated plant rack with lights lol!! Biggest help is to mimick the native soiles to their regions. A lot of this info is available in books and in research data libraries like college access stuff, I found a lot of great info on Australian scrubland biology and chemistry within the soil. Takes waaaaaayyy longer, but it makes each vivarium so dynamic and unique to take care of! :p
thank you for sharing this! please update us in a few months and let us know how these are going. i am a firm believer that a bioactive setup can work for these species if done properly :)
@@vega_os Hmm, I'm not too sure if any of them would be available in the U.S. or not. This website has the names of many of the plants I used on it, so you could maybe take the list to a nursery to see if they've got any of them or anything similar www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/green-home-and-community/sustainable-gardening/free-native-plants-program/participating-nurseries/native-plant-species-for-residents
Hey Anthony, I did an update on these if you're keen to see 😊 czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html Some of the plants didn't fare too well, but the clean up crew went well and the lizards really like the substrate. I ended up adding some more desertty and hardier plants to see how they go 😬
I actually ended up doing an update on this! The plants didn't hold up so well so I ended up swapping them for cacti and succulents and they're doing much better. This is the new video czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html
I ended up changing to succulents and cacti because the native plants didn't fare so well. But the succulents have gone well. This is the update I did on them czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html
beautiful habitat
This actually helped me a lot becuse i need to update my bearded dragons entire bio setup plus tank.
That's so great to hear!!
Love how they came out!! Thanks for all the information too!
Thank you!!
Those setups looks amazing. I've got a bioactive enclosure for my Northern and its been going quite well. The burrow under the basking slate looks really nice here. I tried to do something similar for mine but he would always burrow around it until the slate started falling into the burrow. Wish I could get native Australian plants like those here in the US so easily.
Thank you so much! I’m going to do an update on the enclosures soon - most of the native plants didn’t work out too well. I really like the basking slate too, he has made a good little burrow under it
Hey there!! All of my bioactive tanks are native to the animals region (for the most part) and I've found a few little successes here and there.
Sourcing has been a nightmare of course, but I found the easiest way is to integrate yourself into your local plant community. A lot of my native species have been special ordered by an awesome nursery we have in town, but I trade and buy on FB groups a lot too and have made some friends in the process around the country with better resources and networking than myself.
The only way I can keep them is to have source plants to propagate, so I have way too much houseplants but I rarely lose a species and it's helped me learn the growing patterns of the plants. I recommend a dedicated plant rack with lights lol!! Biggest help is to mimick the native soiles to their regions. A lot of this info is available in books and in research data libraries like college access stuff, I found a lot of great info on Australian scrubland biology and chemistry within the soil.
Takes waaaaaayyy longer, but it makes each vivarium so dynamic and unique to take care of! :p
Super dope ❤❤❤❤
thank you for sharing this! please update us in a few months and let us know how these are going. i am a firm believer that a bioactive setup can work for these species if done properly :)
Thank you so much for your support! I will definitely post an update on how it’s going 😊
@@Kaityscichlids do you have any native australian plants i could possibly find in the U.S. to use in a bioactive blue tongue skink enclosure?
@@vega_os Hmm, I'm not too sure if any of them would be available in the U.S. or not. This website has the names of many of the plants I used on it, so you could maybe take the list to a nursery to see if they've got any of them or anything similar www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/green-home-and-community/sustainable-gardening/free-native-plants-program/participating-nurseries/native-plant-species-for-residents
Hey Anthony, I did an update on these if you're keen to see 😊 czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html
Some of the plants didn't fare too well, but the clean up crew went well and the lizards really like the substrate. I ended up adding some more desertty and hardier plants to see how they go 😬
Looks great 👍 I've had trouble with plants in my bearded dragon setup. What plants did you use and how are they holding up?
I actually ended up doing an update on this! The plants didn't hold up so well so I ended up swapping them for cacti and succulents and they're doing much better. This is the new video czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html
@@Kaityscichlids great thank you
How did it turn Out? Do you still need to clean the tank yourself?
I ended up changing to succulents and cacti because the native plants didn't fare so well. But the succulents have gone well. This is the update I did on them czcams.com/video/Er6aCOVzmEw/video.html