My Top 10 Beginner Mistakes

[Biology]

to jgibeau:

oh thats good you had me laughing my head off. "One way carpet safari" hahaha!
and wow you seriously got a bit of Phylobate poison in you??? wow!!! that must have sucked!!!

[Steve25]

Originally Posted by dartboy2

I'm sill not done with my first viv but so far my #1 problem was not breaking the seal in the silicone tube, here I am thinking wow this is harder to pull than it looks and on the next squeeze goes a loud POP and that was really fun to clean up.lol

Lol I did the same thing and went to the store saying "I think you sold me old Silicone.." And he said did you break the seal.. and I said "oh dang."

-The other mistake was putting wet cocofiber on my background and never holding lol.

-Breaking the sprayer noozle on GS lol

-Buying too many plants in the beginning

[Boondoggle]

Man, I can't believe I'm still making beginner mistakes.

I have been raising blue springtails on large charcoal chunks over coco chunks. I have some ancon hills that hide a lot and have not been putting on weight very well so I was trying to lure them out by putting the large charcoal piece, teeming with springtails into the middle of the tank. I was hoping a feeding station scenario would bring them out a bit more. Unfortunatly I put the charcoal back into the original springtail shoebox when they were done with it.

As you can guess my culture crashed DEAD after doing that twice. I suspect I introduced other fauna into the culture (I saw an Isopod in there?). It is now a poorly populated mite culture.

I no longer have blue springtails.

[NMiamiguy40]

1. Not finding this site first before doing anything on your viv

No gloves with the great stuff and had to scrub scrub scrub till my skin was red