So I set this bioactive up for a pac-man frog! I watched a few videos and none of them had put a drainage layer! I was looking for opinions because I did not put one in this set up and I’m worried it my cause some kind of bacteria or root riot! I do have springtail and isopods in it! (Also will spre
by Prestigious-Hat8461
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I never use drainage layers. I used one once for a crested gecko because you mist their enclosure daily and that was going to be way more water than I usually put in an enclosure so it made sense to me.
The drainage layer was literally always dry so when I upgraded her enclosure I didn’t use one and none of mine have had them since.
For pacman frogs I especially didn’t wanna use one cause I was worried about them burrowing into it or getting stuck somehow. You just gotta manage how much water you put in and don’t over do it to where all your substrate is saturated.
Drainage layers are not ideal for burrowing animals unless we’re giving them ALOT of inches to borrow down to, but by the looks of this one –don’t add it, your frog is going to be digging all in the dirt a drainage layer is only a potential hazard and a hindrance for the frog when they’re burrowing. You’re doing great!
Great work! Btw what’s the size of the tank? Can pacman burrow literal dirt or do you use some kind of reptile substrate?
I had a drainage layer in my frogs tank, yeah never again haha she had loooots of soil to burrow in and she still went all the way down into the drainage layer and made a huge mess of the soil and clay balls 😅
Not needed for burrowing critters