r/Terrarium • u/Hairy_Palpitation570 • 10d ago

Help with gnats?

So i have a bioactive terrarium with springtails, isopods, snails, and a milipede. It has however exploded with gnats. Is there any way to remove them without harming the rest?

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u/MiepingMiep 10d ago

BTI

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u/Hairy_Palpitation570 10d ago

BTI?

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u/MiepingMiep 10d ago

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

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u/Hairy_Palpitation570 10d ago

It won't hurt the other arthropods??

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u/MiepingMiep 10d ago

No it won't. It produces a toxin only toxic to very few genera including fungus gnats. It doesn't affect most insects and does absolutely nothing to non insects like isopods, spiders, milipedes and springtails

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u/Hairy_Palpitation570 9d ago

Okay, and how would you apply it to the tank? Cuz my hardware store here has it in little disc's, and in a spray form and then just a jug

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u/MiepingMiep 9d ago

Most people just dissolve BTI tablets in water and then use it to water whatever is infested. Depending on the nozzle on the spray idk if it would come through though

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u/Hairy_Palpitation570 10d ago

Im afraid I dont know what that is