You can mix your own substrate. Most people use a mixture of organic top soil, sand, clay, and orchid bark. I don’t know the exact percentages because people have different opinions on that, but that’s basically what’s in the substrate.

When Malachi was struggling to climb up on the glass behind you at the end... that was cute.

I mean, that's gotta be like a $700+ haul right? I love biodude, just set it up for my beardie's 120 gallon, but it's so expensive 🙄 be sure to water everything, if you don't the plants won't do well.

I know it sounds really random, but I kinda assumed Tyler would be one of those people who *hates* the word "moist", but he said it SO many times he must be immune.

I love you! You are the reason I have started making the change to bioactive tanks. 2 started, 2 to go!

My family and i have learnt so much about proper pet/reptile care from your videos thank you ☺👍

I'm so upset the Bio dude only ships to the US I immediately went and started adding things to my cart after this and turns out they don't ship out of the states :( I'm gutted

Finally!!!! I have been waiting so long for a pet-tuber to shout out the bio dude. He does not get enough exposure at all and his work is amazing. I have the terra-Sahara set up for my western hognose and leopard gecko and let me tell you... they are THRIVING!! I can’t wait to get another animal just to set them up in such a beautiful environment. The bio dude is by far the best bio-active kit you can get for your animals. They are so knowledgeable and make their products with REAL science behind it. I’m so happy about this video!!!!

The setup looks amazing! Just love the real plants. So much more enrichment for a B dragon xx 🙌🏻

Love love love this video! You were so easy to losten to and follow along - super excited to rescape Barnaby's enclosure now!!!

I adore this video and the set up!! So beautiful thank you for sharing it with us!!!

Omg! I've been so interested in bioactives and am setting one up for my crested! I'm sure my bearded would love one too. I'm excited to see how your berdie's bio goes!

My beardie has had a bioactive setup from The Dude for a while now and loves it! I always recommend bioactive to everyone. It's just hard to keep the plants alive when he eats them all 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Such an amazing enclosure 😍😍!!! Amazing work, well done !!!

I love the videos! I've been waiting for this one for a long time!

Looks great! I'm definitely going to be doing a bio active setup for my bearded dragon soon.

See now, this is kind of where I'm torn as far as which direction to go as far as my beardie's tank in the future. I mean that enclosure is beautiful and safe and I'm sure Malakai will love it all the same, however, it just clearly doesn't look anything like the habitat of the wild central bearded dragons in Australia. They live amongst a ton of red sand, sure, but they bask on rocks and roads, with a ton of sparse brush and bark, hiding away into rocky crevices at high noon. I imagine the sands make for a good "litter box." I just don't know how to feel about everything that came with Tyler's kit. There aren't any rocks to absorb the heat from the mercury bulb to provide a lot of belly heat to aid in digestion. The wood will get warm, sure, but stones and rocks get hot, which is why in the wild they're so often found on the super hot roads. I dunno...I have my beardie on a ground walnut shell substrate made by Zilla and it's great. Stones and wood and even fake plants for some added aesthetics throughout.

I’m so glad you went with BioDude! Both my frogs and created gecko are in setups from him and they are thriving! His products are A++

Tyler! I am so excited! today i finally got a leopard gecko! i was gonna get a bearded but once i saw the leopards i knew i was changing my mind. Set up my newbies cage last week then went and got it today !

Ugh love it dude keep doing these vids!

Hey not related to the vid but can you please react to the video - laying in a box of snakes | overtime 9 | Dude Perfect - its a twenty four minute long video and the snake part starts at about twenty one minutes in. There is one shot of all the snakes in a big plastic trash can and there is milk snakes in there along with other snakes. Because putting milk snakes with other snakes is a great idea

Love this set up! Love the BioDude.

Im researchung while waiting for my biodude shipment for my first bioactive beardie set up. This was a great video. Love seeing your beardie moving about exploring in the background

Your the reason I’m getting into the reptile hobby

It looks great! Im sure Maliki loves it. I went bioactive using bioactive using biodude products. My BP loves her enclosure and comes out more during the day and night. My cryptanhus is huge now it s more than 12" high! Crazy.

Love it 😍 you did a good job 🦎

You’ve inspired me to change my beardies viv bio active.. I’ve always just been so worried about the substrate but I’m glad you’ve found a safe one!

Dude that enclosure looks so amazing! I'm hoping to move my leopard geckos over to bioactive one of these day's. Thanks for the inspiration! :3

this was so cool video! keep doing this, you're good at this

What a beautiful set up! That’s a lucky beardie! 👏🏻😍❤️

I am a firm believer that kits are a potential crapy and definitely expensive short cut. If they can put it together so can you and there are lots of groups with multiple people who have been doing it for years and are willing to help. You learn a lot more doing it yourself. But that is a beautiful setup.

Love it haven't seen anyone do it yet!!!!!!

Looks amazing!

Dude you absolutely can make your own substrate WAY cheaper and it's exactly the same. I got organic soil, sand, and clay from home depot for my leopard geckos bio enclosure and its thriving. The plants are doing great and so is the CUC. The bio dude isn't special.

Beautiful! Very well done. I have had biodudes supplies for over a year now and it is honestly the BESt soil on the market!! My beardie loves digging around in it and I put superworms in the Terra sahara and they breed in my tank creating an everlasting supply of food for my Freddy Mercury ! 😁

That looks so good!!!

Love this setup it’s so cool

Wow, this actually helps me out a lot bcc I always have a difficult time looking for reptile accessories :( ! Thanks for another great video Tyler:) and Malekai is sooooo freakin adorable haven’t seen him in awhile:)

Your bearded dragon has the greatest name😄

I know the setup was from 2 years ago and I'm watching it today as we speak thank you for all your help tips guiding can't wait to get me a new little dude I miss my little buddy passed away like 6 ish years ago can't wait to get a new little dude

He/she looks so thankful😍 ahh I love bearded dragons so much

So beautiful. If I ever get a reptile, I'm definitely getting a bio active for it.

Wow, he looks so happy and the enclosure looks so good! Love your videos btw 🦎💙

Your the best!!love your videos there great and so helpful ☺

Looks very good.

Very nice setup, definitely a lot going on in there.

Love the vids good job 👍🏽

It looks so great. I have to say, as I was watching I was expecting the prices to be something I couldn't afford and after looking, everything is so fairly priced! I'm thinking this will be an awesome project for homeschool with my daughters and their beardie.

Thank you for spreading the message for better care for such misunderstood animals such as reptiles also bioactive enclosures are so good and look amazing which is a plus I have been longing for a snake ( an egg eater snake to be specific) parents won't let me lol

Awww he's so happy

I love the look of the tank! One thing I kind of worry about is all of the moisture inside the tank. With the mix of the sphagnum moss and the damp dirt, your dragon is at a risk of respiratory illness and rot.

This is so cool!

I adore your enclosures! Just thought I'd say that!

I don't know why you say you aren't very good at scaping becauseause it looks amazing!! Great job and video! 😁

Omg I used the Bio Dude for my hermit crab tank! I totally recomend it too!

I'm obsessed, I want to do this now!

Excellent.

Tyler making bearded dragon videos makes my day 😂

OMG looks so good

Very nice! I think it turned out fab! I so want a berdie and if I ever get one, this is what I want to aim for. Hes a lucky boy! I just finished rescapeing my fish tank. I think I blew there minds with the new gravel and all the plants lol its a forest, I think i added to many.

Also I freaking LOVE the bio dude. 10/10 would recommend. Only downside is not being able to put the whole damn website in my cart because money 😭

THIS IS SO FREAKING BOOTIFUL HE'S GOING TO BE SO HAPPY

I love the biodude I use his products for my ball python.

I plan on getting this for my beardie from the Bio-Dude figured I would get some about a month ago but haven't got any yet.

Your awesome! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND YOUR ENCLOSURES! You take such good care of your animals! 😀

Beautiful💕

I would love an update on this! Like how is it evolving and all that!

I know it probably sucks to have to have to specify that vids aren’t sponsored. But I love that although you’re getting free stuff, you’re all about giving us an honest review! 😊

Love your videossss

SO COOL

So cool!!💝

Hey Tyler I’m getting a bearded dragon, and I’ve got every thing down except were to get my insects! If you have any suggestions please let me now! And how old is you bearded dragon? We’re did you get your enclosure?

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the terra Sahara is 40% sand. You can make your own with 40% top soil, 40% play sand, 20% excavator clay and add sphagnum moss, leaf litter, and worm castings. It actually even says this on the Bio Dudes own website.

yo i used the bio dude's stuff for my kenyan sand boa, its great

I know nothing about reptiles but this is absolutely beautiful

If I were you Tyler I would of added tiles on one side with in the substrate to help the beardies claws.

Nice 👍

Omg 😭 I want this tank for Amelia so bad!!!

I love beardies so much 😭😭😭

Look into reptile systems twin T5 luminaire . Uvb system that you can add a sunrise , sunset and the higher midday uvb output that both the animals and plants would see in the wild . It's something I'm playing around with at the minute

Good job on the tank and the video! I'm going with the Bio Dude for my dragon as well and she'll be in a 125 gallon tank. The only problem is The Dude doesn't have any Springtails or isopods in stock. Where did you get yours or do you know of a reputable place to get some? Don't want to proceed with my setup until I can find some cleaner bugs. Thanks!

Omg yes I'm early I love u Tyler

Best episode of pimp my room

"Gonna do it off camera" is the equivalent of a minecraft youtuber "mining" off camera

Very Nice Setup! I want to go bioactive with my custom enclosure when I build it. Can't wait

I have two of my three on bioactive. They LOVE to dig in the dirt. Might consider removing some stuff in a spot for him to dig

For "Sand" I use alot of things like grounded almond shells. You can get it at a pet store.

Quick question! Do you only use a mercury vapor bulb or do you use a strip uvb as well? Just wondering if you need to use both because I'm getting a beardie soon:)

Awesome! How big is the enclosure? It seems to be the perfect size!

Hi Tyler, this might sound like a dumb question, but wouldn't you need a drainage layer to control the amount of water going in and out of the Bioactive setup? Greetings from South Africa :)

Take a shot everytime he says "This is gonna make it look more natural."

Soooo Cute -Zarnaz😍😘

You are awesome I want to do this to my beardie ❤️❤️❤️ edit: also is it ok for bearded dragons to eat the cleanup crew- iso-pods

I think it's kind of weird to only promote the BioDude's arid substrate at the beginning when there's other amazing arid substrates as well, one of which is significantly better than BioDude's mixture which is the Arcadia Earthmix Arid.

Great job, just one idea put some kind of natural backround and also it would cover those black wires behind the enclosure.

Would you recommend this for a bioactive hedgehog enclosure?

I have bioactive viva for my beardie and BP! I'm also building ones for both of my geckos. Its soooooo much cheaper to find your own stuff instead of buying a kit. I've been growing my own springtails and isopods. All I had to buy for my BP was a hide and some wood. So under $50 for him. Only spent $21 on my beardie and about $200 for each gecko but i had to buy all new enclosures which were about $120 for each. A kit from the bio dude for my beardie would've been a few hundred dollars before shipping and shipping was about $50-$70. I've bought other things from him and his stuff is great, I just wouldn't buy a kit

What is your opinion on Bioactive set-ups for new baby bearded dragons?? I want to start out with something like this (with a little more open room) but don’t know if it’s good or bad to have worms/insects roaming the tank with him so small.

Hi,im planing for getting a bearbed dragon but my only question is, how much time the heat lamp and UV light need to be on?

Do they send you a tank as well or just all the thing to put in the tank?