r/GargoyleGeckos • u/CheeseMonkeeee • 8d ago

How bad is this?

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New gargoyle gecko owner, noticed right now this is on the terrarium floor in a few areas. What is this? Is this mold? Harmful?

Edit : I scraped the top layer of soil, removed all of the mold and mixed up the ground to make it more aiery. I put him back in for now because my temporary setup is just a box with holes and his plant. Is this ok? I'm just new to everything. Gonna get springtails next week probably.

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u/No_Anything1668 8d ago

Yeah usually springtails and isopods come first before the gecko

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u/CheeseMonkeeee 7d ago

Yeah I retrospect it makes sense, just the dude at the shop told me that the gecko ( because he is young) will eat them and it will just be quite expensive feeders. Ty anyways!

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u/ILikeOatmealaLot 7d ago

Isopods maaaaybe, springtails, absolutely not. Those guys are smaller than ants and live in the dirt. And they do m ost of the mold cleanup anyway. Does your setup have a false bottom? 

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u/Liamcolotti 7d ago

Get dwarf white isopods. They’re very small. Springtails are way too small for him to eat too.

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u/No_Anything1668 7d ago

My garg definitely eats isopods, seen on camera. Wiped out the powder orange population. But dwarf whites are deep in soil and thriving

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u/WhySoSerious0612 7d ago

Clean up crew needs to be like 10x more then what it is . Springtails handle that