Bluff City Jungle

06/26/2022

Looks like we found our next generation of zebras (Armadillidium maculatum). They are still colorless manacae, but they are exploring life outside mom’s marsupium pouch.

02/11/2021

so many good boys

02/09/2021

When I first adopted my rainbow boa, Pico Pedro I, I was committed to making her home as comfortable as I could. Fake plants depressed me and bagged substrate was so wasteful. It was so cruel to keep her in a cage without anything to interact with, especially when I saw her interest in even a single live plant.

We need to continue to refine husbandry practices if we want to justify keeping wild animals in captivity. Our pets should feel secure and stimulated in their homes. Bioactive husbandry aims to do this by employing live plants, beneficial bacteria, and custodial bugs to create a self-cleaning and naturalistic environment for your pet.

Have questions? We gotcha! (Pinning to top and will add answers).

1: What pets can benefit from a bioactive enclosure?
There is more focus on reptiles and amphibians in the bioactive hobby, but small mammals and aquatic animals can benefit from some aspects of bioactivity, often with modifications like having traditional mammal bedding in some of the enclosure or requiring more than just spot-cleaning.

2: What do I have to clean?
Not counting any aquatic part of a set up, you can expect to clean up a few times a year, plus manually removing f***s. Urine and urates, skin sheds, dead or dying plant matter, and moldy hides from humidity will all be welcome sights for your clean-up crew bugs.

You may find you actually enjoy tending to your pets enclosure, as I have. Peaking under the leaves, trimming the vines, seeing where the moss will spread. Even the smell of the enclosure is much more like a forest floor than a pet store.

02/09/2021

The wonderful intersection of invertebrate breeding and mood journaling.

Do you custom label your plants or bug colonies? I need inspiration for my plants. Lemme see!

02/06/2021

Pico had his tank glass cleaned today so after the timed lights had shut off and the tank got more active, I took a video showing off her activity two days after eating a substantial meal.

Zebra isopods and pink tropical springtails occupy the soil, as do powder orange isopods which I don’t think are in the video.

01/22/2021

When did Bluff City Jungle Supply start supplying art? Cohortian, all nature is art, I’m just capitalizing on it.

PM us to buy. All pictured here are watercolor on paper, various sizes. See descriptions for info.

- Caroline

01/21/2021

Don't have a dairy cow, man! These awesome stickers are only $3 a pop!

01/21/2021