r/terrariums

1. If you can identify the wood type that wood be appreciated

2. I want to use it for stick to go across my vivariums but I don’t know where to cut it. It is too thick to break by hand so I’d need to use the saw.

3. Please share your tank pics so I can get more ideas. I’m spending hours looking for non pladariums.

Hey everyone my terrarium seems have these like dots or little balls of dirt in a pile does anyone know what it is?

My week old isopod vivarium has this little wormy guy. I've seen him twice, he's probably about a couple mm long. Should I take him out?

Update, someone said it was a flatworm and should be removed so I carefully removed it.

This is the first "big" terrarium I've made, and it's about two-ish months old now, but I'm so happy to see how it's doing! Even better, I get to see my Bylas Ants Springtails running around under the wood, or moss, if I poke around a bit. It's been such a fun journey, slowly collecting, managing and putting this together! I know the ferns like the button in the back will likely have to come out eventually, but for now she's stunning and growing more everyday☺️

Dear all!

Since ever I loved Pseudoscorpions and now for the first time I saw them to be sold online for bee keepers (which is a scam I would say, they indeed eat varroa, but they can't enter the enclosed capsules of the larva and therefore only eat at maximum the few varroa generally roaming around the hive). I quickly bought 10x and started to make a housing for them foowing this guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKbRcTT9nuk

It starts by taking a container with air ventilation and mixing of 50/50 sand and wet coconut fiber as a water reservoir (must be sprayed maybe 1x per week to keep slightly moist, picture 2), then adding springtails (biggest version that I found to be also a food source, some soil also went over, but not required, picture 3), then top it with wood chips the correct size to give a natural surrounding (picture 3). My Pseudoscorpions are called Book Scorpion Chelifer cancroides, so they naturally live between narrow areas in low light. The real food source is wingless fruit flies, but only the small variant Melanogaster has the correct size. As they quickly die without food source themself, I also added fruit fly food in a plastic dish, which made the flies also directly reproduce inside of the Pseudoscorpion enclosure (picture 4). Just don't use a big one as I this picture, 1 Pseudoscorpion died getting entangled in it (bottom corner) :(((. Put the food in a small dish like me so you can quickly get it out and replace, once it s depleted for the flies. Lastly I also found a female Pseudoscorpion laying it s eggs, but as it did not find any critter to make a nest she used dead fruit flies, pretty funny (picture 6).

Sadly I never saw Pseudoscorpion larva and all died within ~ 1 year, yet they should be able to live various years...

Something went wrong apparently, but I have no clue what. With this I just want to share this super cool micro Terrarium as a inspiration and whenever I might catch up again maybe people have also experience and might tell me what could have gone wrong, hence the ambivalent title...

Best greetings

PS: I will try to add a super funny gif to the comments where a Pseudoscorpion is thirsty on my hand and drinks my sweat with its pincers like a shovel ;)

Theres a bunch of white mold in my terrarium - what do I do?

I recently created this terrarium yesterday for a school project and woke up to this but the plant is healthy tho looking green on day 1 idk what do u guys think?

Long story short, I couldn’t leave my tank flat at the back cause it was too heavy so I had to use PU Foam vertically for the background, I ended up spreading the silicone much higher than my foam, couldn’t even reach it, other than scraping it away after its fully cured .what else can I do?😭

Source: traditional.devon.thatching

I don’t remember when they showed up but they have a huge population. They come to the surface when I wet the soil. Are they harmful to my crested gecko? I don’t believe they crawl on him. Thank you