Yours to cultivate for your own enjoyment and that of your tropical animals. Web drainage layers are the first step in a tropical planted bioactive terrarium, while not necessarily needed to provide a planted terrarium drainage layers do help provide ease of mind while catching excess water draining through the soil to prevent stagnation, bad bacteria and in most cases an odor. I'm more interested in clean up crews.
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What is a Bioactive Terrarium? (+ How to Make One) Terrarium Tribe
The key to creating a successful bioactive terrarium is to mimic the natural environment as closely as possible.
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The regular critters used for that don't require live plants.Plants may be contained in pots rather than planted directly in the substrate. Web naturalistic = an enclosure that looks very similar to the animal’s natural habitat, but lacks a bioactive substrate and may utilize primarily artificial materials such as plastic plants and resin logs.I am not a particularly huge fan of real plants.
But in the wise words of uncle ben, “with great plants and animals comes great responsibility.”The best plants for bioactive terrariums and live vivarium environments. So that means all the usual qualities of good water retention, aeration, and drainage needed for healthy plants.Plus, the nutrition and dwelling needs of your bug, bacteria, and fungal colonies.
