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Originally Posted by Hobbyherpmom

I've been calling it self sustained lol. I'd never heard of bioactive before now! These guys were the next-to-last littles to join the party! I discovered yesterday that even our earthworms have made those weird eggsack things (super weird looking when the babies are coming out). So now we've got baby snails, worms, roly polies(sp?), some beetles and a spider lol. I never knew it was called a Bioactive set up.

So then, if I set up the baby tank the same way and add baby mealworms, the babies should have all that they need right? Anything I should be keeping an eye out for as far as mama?

Unfortunately the term bioactive has been used and abused. Everything is marketed as bioactive these days even completely dry soil vacuum sealed in bags. I see a lot of people in facebook groups just purchasing these products and not understanding the true meaning behind a "bioactive" enclosure or even just putting in a few isopods and consider it self-sustaining. Self-sustaining sounds better to me .