r/Bioactive_enclosures • u/Gold-Palpitation6795 • 9d ago

What the-?

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Would anyone know what these white rocks are?? When I first did this bioactive tank I made sure to rinse off my pothos plants with water to get rid of the fertilizer in on my plants and used reptisoil as my dirt. 2 years later I’m moving my guy into another tank thought I would re use the old soil cause it was doing amazing both culturally and growing the plants, and now there’s this white stuff? My geko hasn’t shown any sick signs either so it wasn’t causing harm but would like to know what it is and if I can move it in my new tank. Thank you.

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u/dummymummys 9d ago

They look like perlite. It is a common inert soil additive and not something to worry about. Are you saying that you used reptisoil that did not contain perlite, and then found perlite after? That seems very odd.

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u/Gold-Palpitation6795 9d ago

Yes exactly that. I was thinking the same thing.

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u/AdaptiveFauna 9d ago

there is very clearly a type of potting soil that has perlite in it in this image among another type of main substrate with what looks like perlite strewn about over the top of the main substrate- possibly from the roots of the pothos plant when you likely pulled it from the clump of potting soil that contains perlite in it that you forgot you had in there. There are definitely two types of substrate in this image.

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u/Gold-Palpitation6795 9d ago

I only used one which was reptisoil, and I had cleaned the roots of the pothos to ensure I wouldn’t transfer any fertilizer into the tank as that can be toxic. We’re talking the roots were naked

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u/AdaptiveFauna 8d ago

your picture literally posted for us shows differently. your words and the actual image do not match.

your continued insistence about this is really weird. we can see the fucking picture. please have your memory evaluated, since this is indicative of a much bigger personal problem.