Recent content by John J

The plants are doing good and standing tall after getting uprooted and than transplanted and watered. I didn't actually see anything in there but I'll be watering it with that mixture for a day or two more than wait a week for all larvae to be dead.bitbwas just the one tortoises enclosure my...

That is true. I feel more equipped now at least, thanks for all the advice and perspective again as usual lol!

All plants were quarantined and soaked in a small hydrogen peroxide and water mix at a ratio of 1:4, and I got some UV bug zappers. For now I put a bunch of fake plants in there so it's not bare as I treat all the plants for potential issues. I bought some "mosquito dunks" and was thinking of...

What's crazy is they are all gone now! One Day it was Jumanji and the next, calm. I attribute this I think to the organic material at the very bottom of the Coco coir I never changed out it was a small bag of soil. As you have stated before that that's not a good idea at all I neglected to...

Just a quick update. I replaced all the substrate and there are hardly any more gnats! Once I employ these mitigation tactics now hopefully I will not have that happen again, I'll post a few pictures of the process and what it looked like, a gnats that were caught in a 30mimute session at the...

That's pretty cheap for that unit, looks great! Yes it is plenty big for that, I'm gonna give that a try too I've seen some people use bug zappers. Maybe have it on a timer to kick on before the morning lights, just to get a bulk of the adult population.

Thanks a lot as always for your advice and insight! Hopefully with all this info I can get this situation under control, if I found any reliable systems that work for me I will post it here for others to see, thank you!

Yeah I didn't even think of it either so thank you! That's something I'll have to actively pay attention to over the months!

That's a possibility, although I don't know if the degradation process happens that quick. The enclosure is now 4 to 5 months old with only a few boards exposed and all wood was freshly bought from home depot. Ide say 80% of the wood has pond liner stapled into it that meets and overlapping...

Okay I'll look for these bigger blocks and replace the substrate tomorrow, I'll soak all the blocks break em down and throw em in. If you don't mind whenever you have time, can you share a picture of your desert tortoise enclosures or indoor enclosures of any species so I can get an idea of how...

I want to try and water the coir with larvae killing agents but I'm afraid that for example hydrogen peroxide mixed in the water is not good for the torts. Or that apple cider vinegar has strong pungent smells the torts don't like and a dozen sticky traps as futile as that is brings on a really...

Also, the tortoises never poop I'm there enclosure they always go outside. They only pee in there when there inside the terra Cotta dish eating food, so idk where this food is coming from for the photos flies.

I will have to do some thorough searching for where they're coming from because both big enclosed vivariums are in the garage and there are no plants in there except inside the enclosure. I've never had these bugs before until now. The strange thing is too I haven't watered the enclosure for two...

This makes sense but my only problem with the substrate freezing and baking method is that I have 32 square ft of coir at 5 inch depth, about 10 blocks in the enclosure. I don't have the room to cycle the substrate. Do you know if any of the watering methods are safe for tortoises such as 3%...

Thank you very much again for responding to both of my threads I will implement all of this stuff straight away! I did get the blocks of coir so I will be expanding those and replacing the old stuff, thanks a bunch! Hopefully I develop a system here to keep these gnats away for good!