How to Get Rid of Fungus Gnats in Your Reptile Room!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Fungus gnats are some of the most annoying pests we have to deal with as reptile keepers. This video will show you how to get them out of your reptile enclosures!
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these gnats were the most annoying phase of our lives lol i’m so grateful you were able to find a solution to this
I second that lol
5:59 This Katchy deadass saved my room :D
It’s the best!
i love this, super informative. learned a lot about those annoying little things
I still hate them
Also why are people in the comments so pressed? I’m just happy to see any video uploading from you
I appreciate that :) I’ll keep the vids coming
Give the man a break he can't control his leopard gecko is shedding! But I voted for leopard gecko care guide lol
Haha thanks bro! That’ll be out next weekend
These are my go-to methods! Great video Alex!
Thanks for watching bro!
Que bonito vídeo, bien educativo. I love you hijito bello de mamá❤️
Thanks mom ❤️
Thank you for this video!!! My bioactive enclosures don't have them, but my bioactive roach/cricket bins used to be full of them... Something that I've found also helps with controlling the adults are those yellow sticky traps that you hang. I leave them close to the bins and they helped a lot, but not 100%, it's more damage control as you said. Do you know if the mosquito bits affect other insects? I've heard about it but I'm afraid it'd wipe out the isopods, springtails, or even my precious roaches... lol!
Also, what a beautiful Tokay! I'm also a Tokay owner and they're easily my favorite reptille.
Thank you for watching, I’m glad the vid was helpful!! I tried the yellow traps as well but I didn’t have much success at all, I think I should have placed them closer to the enclosures. I’ve read that it’s harmless to isopods and springtails, and in my experience that seems to be the case as well!
And yes, tokays are amazing :’) I live in Florida so I would catch and release all the time haha
LOVE this info, I'd only worry about how it could affect my other invertebrate inhabitants and my pac man frog
Completely harmless!! It only targets the gnats
@@ravishingreptileseven spiders and tarantulas, that burrow?
Gracias por compartir como eliminar ese insecto…
De nada!!
I have a plant tank but I also keep isopods and springtails so it’s hard to find a solution that gets rid of the gnats but doesn’t kill everything else
Mosquito bits wont kill isopods or springtails :)
Are fungal gnats consumed by dart frogs?
Yes they like them :)
@@ravishingreptiles ok
get rid of the cause of fungus gnats, which is moist shredded wood or pine bark. indoor plant keepers believe fungus gnats are unavoidable, but since switching to non pine bark media (coir or peat + perlite) i've had zero fungus gnats on indoor plants. maybe you can make a similar adjustment, that gets rid of the cause, rather than treating the problem. cheers
I’ll look into that! Thanks a ton
I don't have either of those in my enclosures. I use BioDude terra Aranea su substrate and started pothos in some enclosures and now have them. So, idk where mine came from then.
@@calliew311 : they're tiny little flies that are basically everywhere, in small numbers, and so tiny you dont see them normally. they readily get into the house. they love and breed in decaying organic matter that is very wet and that goes sour (acidic), which is why they're also called vinegar flies. they're a constant nuisance for indoor plants, when you have suitable media that retains moisture too much and goes sour. for your application (not my hobby) i would suggest using non-organic media where it gets really wet, and organic based media only where it's truly needed and hopefully in a way such that it can readily drain. for indoor plants it's been just a matter of changing from bark based media to coir, which both drains much better and also does not rot quickly, for those sour conditions to develop. sour rotting media has a putrid sulfide smell.
hope this helps you a little to work it out.
@@Chris-op7yt I get that, but I live in northern Nevada. And I only have 1 pothos plant that I have cut/split and placed in water to get roots to be able to plant in my spider enclosures. 1 live plant in my entire house, lol. Granted, it's the first time I've ever put live plants into my BioDude, and I do run a humidifier, but the avg humidity in my living room with the humidifier running 24/7 is between 45 and 51%. So, idk how any of my enclosures got so wet that these things hatched. I did buy 1 bag of substrate from Tarantula Cribs, and I used it for my isopods, and saw some of the larvae of the fungus gnats, I was afraid my isopods were too dry, so I know I over soaked them and had leaf litter, and the stuff you mentioned that causes them and feeds them. Well, I threw that substrate out, and started over with BioDude, and cut way back on the watering. I rarely water or spritz my T enclosures.
Idk how they are still surviving. I have one of those Katchy devices with the light. And I don't have a shit ton of those flies, but enough that it bothers me. Like every other week my sticky thing in the device will have 40 dead flies. And every few days in 2 of my enclosures I'll see 2 to 5 flies. I just don't want them to get out of hand. But if I dry out those 2 enclosures, maybe the flies won't be able to breed and reproduce, or the larvae will die due to lack of moisture? If not, is it safe to use the method in this video, what's your opinion? Or would that kill my spiders? Or do you even know?
@@calliew311 : you could try sprinkling some garden lime over the growing medium/roots, which in small doses is good to plant and neutralizes the acidic conditions these fly love, and should be totally safe to spiders.
i havent tried the method in this video and found it by randomly stumbling onto it, as fungus gnats are also indoor plants problem....or only breed spiders that eat fungus gnats ;)
these nature lookalike immitation setups for all kinds of small pets may be more trouble than people bargain for. definitely not required by these types of pets.
I don’t know what fungus gnats are, I don’t own any reptiles, but I’m watching this video 💁🏽♀️
Wow, I appreciate you 🤩
Hi… I have crested geckos and frogs and I cannot get rid of the fungus. I’ve been reading about mosquito bites and never tells me if they are OK for my Frogs🐸 or my geckos. Thank you in advance for answering me.
Hi! Yes they are safe to use, they will not harm your frogs or geckos :)
I wonder if Mosquito Bits is dangerous to Tarantulas? I never had fungus gnats before but i think i got some tainted substrate, and now I have 2 main enclosures they are coming out of.
I don’t have experience with tarantulas but from what I’ve heard it’s also completely safe for them !
will this kill springtails and isopods?
Nope!
Do you reccommend doing this as soon as you make the substrate? I went bioactive last year and never had this problem until the past two months? I saw a video where a man just used boiling hot water in the peat moss
Boiling helps but the gnats will eventually be drawn to the soil. I always add mosquito bits as soon as I make the substrate! Works great as a preventative, you shouldn’t have issues for a few months
@@ravishingreptilesthank you so much! They have been such a pain!
I have a bioactive terrarium with magic potion isopods. Do you know if the mosquito bites thing is going to kill my isopods ?
Nah they won’t hurt the isopods
@@ravishingreptiles and what about the snake is safe for it ?
@@DaphneeMB yes
WHAT HAPPENED I VOTED FOR JUMPING SPIDER CARE 😖😭
That one lost to the leopard gecko care guide which wasn’t able to film bc she is in shed! My next vid will be the Leo care guide and then I’ll do the jumping spider care guide right after :)
Will the Mesquite bits affect my Isopods?
Nope!
@@ravishingreptiles thank you!
Im gonna be so mad if this video does good
Wow you’re such a good friend 🙏🏽
Umm... The Leopard geck care guide won the post... fugis was in last place lol 🤣
I know my bad 😂 I was gonna film that one but my gecko is in shed so i figured it would be best to not bother her lol I’ll have that vid out next!
@@ravishingreptiles yeah. Sure you will
First
This isn’t what we voted for. I want that leopard gecko care guide
Silence. Know your place, subling.
@@ravishingreptiles excuseeeee me?
First
You dropped this --> 👑
you’re only first bc Alex didn’t let me watch the video till later. enjoy your “W” bc it’ll be your last one
@@aymetperez3469 🌚