Do BIOACTIVE Reptile Tanks REALLY Need Cleaning?! 

Distilled water instead of tap water helps with water marks (for misting and cleaning). I do use tap water (with sometimes pedialyte mixed in once a week) for drinking water for the geckos but not for the glass, distilled for misting and cleaning the glass. Instead of paper towels the Mr. Clean magic erasers without any soap or chemicals are amazing for the glass and water spots :). Great videos I love them!

To anyone reading this comment I hope you, your family and your pets ( if you have any pets ) are having an amazing day and that all is well

Loved this podcast style video. Please do more. Hell a 30min yep would be great to listen to while I'm at work

Love you showing in detail how you clean a bioactive tank! It’s a great example to show!

So glad you uploaded!

I think that the snake plant could have maybe survived if you tried keeping it somewhere dryer like you were talking about, idk tho. Also, with snake p[lants you can actually grow a whole new plant, I think even multiple from one leaf, just by cutting them into pieces a few inches long, just make sure their the right side up. id google it tho bc i dont know a ton about it. Great video btw i do really like ones like this, theyre really great for me because i dont have a ton of people who i can talk to or who will talk to me about random gecko/ reptile stuff with. tank looks great too, i cant imagine keeping multiple as nice as yours are lol :)

Right there with you on the constantly cleaning watermarks train. I love Ziri but man her tank gets cloudy. Magnaturals are nice but they tend to leave brown streaks where they touch the glass over time of getting sprayed so even more elbow grease needed lol. Very cool with the more relaxed format, also talking about something that is often skipped by other keepers for videos but is so important especially for new keepers.

Hiiii, great vid. My geckos, Ziggy, Sarah and Juniper say hi!!!! Thank you for the the name suggestion for my gecko. Love your channel! 😃🦎

For cleaning the glass, I cut a lemon in half and rub it on the glass. Then I use a wet paper towel to remove the lemon juice and the glass is really clean afterwards. I just make sure that I remove the most of the lemon because I imagine it to be a sharp smell for the geckos

I’ve seen “PH down” be used and work wonders. It’s aquarium and turtle safe so it should be safe for cresties and plants, worth looking in to!

Thanks so much for these bio active terrarium videos, they really motivate me to take the best care of my crested gecko and they have such useful tips and info 💓

I enjoyed this style of video ☺️. Xx

Love your amazing videos

This is fabulous. I’ve just made most of my geckos Bioactive. Got one more to go ! Maintenance is important so I’m loving this video. Thank you . I found that fungus Gants don’t like cinnamon , so I put cinnamon leaves in which I got on a reptile site and have managed to eradicate them.

I’ve actually bought your 3d printed gecko accessories before! Didn’t know you had a RU-vid channel

Hello there, like the videos they help alot. You mentioned fungus nats in this how do you deal with them?

I had no idea you've got an Etsy shop, gotta check it out

Watermarks are made by minerals in the water. There are pastes I have I have used that wipe it off fairly easy but probably not "friendly". If u can find a natural version of rainx which allows water to run off not "bead" on the glass it will prevent this as well

I use cut up lemons and just rub the lemon half on the glass, leave it for 5-10 minutes depending on how gross the glass is then wipe the excess off with a wet paper towel and dry, it works a treat!

I live in Arizona and my water is like sand so I use a Kirkland and brita filter jugs to filter out the tap (yes, I filter it twice) as well as reptisafe and it minimized it A LOT! I use dawn and make sure to clean it out real well.

RO/distilled water is dangerous used long term for drinking, which is why i wont use it for my animals who mostly drink from droplets on leafs. Even if they still have a waterbowl with normal water. Right now i’m running my water through a Britta filter can. It doesn’t remove everything completely, which is good, but it definitely has helped a lot with water spots not becoming as bad as quick and its not killing my live mosses lol.

RO water for spraying and humidity. Good quality "regular" water for watering plants and for the gecko's water dish :)

Wow I was going to get up to clean my leo's tank, and this pops up.

Magic eraser on the water marks! I also use them to clean my aquarium. Just make sure you get the plain ones without detergent

Try using distilled water for misting, I use it in a fountain thing I have and it never gets mineral build up. I have really hard water too so I use bottled water for my leopard gecko.

Maiden head aquatics do RO filtered water, you can buy this by the gallons. Deionised water is also available from Halfords/Asda/Tesco etc You can buy small RO filters up to large scale this could be worth looking in to depending how much you need and how quickly you need it as it does filter per hour

Citric acid is commonly used to clean aquarium equipment so you could use that for water stains. RO/Distilled water is bad if it's the only source of water you're supplying because it lacks any minerals. So you can spray down the tank daily with RO/Distilled and water you plants/livestock with your house water.

Have you ever considered a reverse osmosis system with a remineralization stage?

Water marks can’t be removed from plant leaves. Best solution is to use softened water when watering/spraying down your tanks. Reverse osmosis water or distilled water would be best. Then you’ve got no calcium or magnesium dust on your plants/glass

You can use lemon juice to clean the water marks off of your plants. Looking at the other comments on this video, lemon juice seems to clean everything in bioactive tanks!

Do you have a video on caring for reptiles on holiday

Have you tried blue death feigning beetles as cleanup crew with leopard geckos? A lot of people have had success with them, they feed on fecal matter in the wild

hey, I have a bioactive frog tank and I was just wondering if you have had any problems with fungus gnats? If so how do you treat it. They are so anoying because they eat the roots of plants.

Can anyone tell me if I can use a Monsteria and a golden pothos for my leachianu

Umm I was watching one of your older vids and you said I need a dimming thermastat for my deap heat projector. I live in the usa and we dont have thos what do u recomend I use insted.

What plants are safe for leopard geckos?

Where do u get ur leo vivariums??

Ive has my crested gecko for a year now and i have never got water marks

On Facebook groups I've seen some people saying that we had to change the soil of bioactive terrariums once a year. Does anyone have an opinion about it ? It doesn't really makes sense to me !

Look up Norwex they have a cloth to clean glass no chemicals. You simply wet the cloth and clean.

Oh and with the glass I just use Beaphar deep cleaner once a week on the doors with a paper towel.

Hello leopard gecko lady i really need your help badly please respond so i have a leopard gecko my cousin got him from Petco i got to take him in 2020 and he's been fine he was eating and had a basking light and sand i changed the sand to carpet and other stuff and watched your videos but while I was gone he fell in love with wax worms and won't eat anything other than that we moved a couple of times and got a cat she jumps on his tank alot but she's in my room and his tank to I don't know what to do i think i caused stress he won't eat because I got kinda lazy but I'm working on that my mom said he's gonna die if i don't feed him so i tried he won't eat and he looked at the cricket like he wants to eat it then walks away my lamp recently broke that could be the reason and I'm getting that fixed we saw Petco people awhile back and they said does he needs sand but from watching your videos you said sand is bad for leopard geckos tomorrow where gonna try reptiboost and he's gonna get seen buy a vet to be tested with parasites i just really need your help please like even a simple reply please help!

I scrub the glass in my crested tank with lemon juice, and it's always worked pretty well and doesn't smell. We have very hard water though, so it doesn't last long :|

I have my leopard gecko on reptisoil is that okay? Please need to know thank you :(

Hi question my leopard gecko has seemed to vomit or regurgitate. I have had him for 3 years never had this happen and he has a heat mat and over top heat as well. So my question is what should I do if this continues or how to fix it?

Hello!

For some reason I can't keep a nerve plant alive in ANY of my bioactive vivs. Rip to all of the nerves I've ruined.

Water treatment specialist here!! RO water is fine. It’s all I’ve ever used and I never have to clean my glass. I also drink RO and so do my pets. It’s a misconception that you need minerals in your water. If you’re eating a healthy diet, you will get all your minerals from your food, not water.

lemon juice mixed with a little white vinegar dabbed with paper towel/newspaper is great for cleaning and not potent to reptiles! :)

try using rubbing alcohol on the glass water marks

I once put a wolf spider in my leopard gecko habitat to see if I could make a functioning ecosystem. With mealworms and beetles and spiders and the apex predator gecko. A few days later the spider was gone and it's sage to assume what happened.... I even told Arnold not to eat himmmmmmmm

If you use ro water you don't have any of those problems. My glass never gets that bad even after a month

Please help my leapered gecko was ok then in winter she just stopped eating and haveing bad sheds and I fed her like a month ago but she’s getting skinned but I notice her heat pad is loose so I am getting her a new 1 but can it be the heat pad pls help? She also has eye caps from not shedding good but I think she’s is gonna eat rn and it seems like when I clean her eye she doesn’t want to eat but she has her eye caps and she was just looking at the food then just started to look up pls help and she just stares to the sky when I clean her but with her eye caps is looking around

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when are you going to do a face revile??