While a colony is easier to take care of overall, you do still need to clean periodically. If your solid floor colony can be trained to use a litterbox, life is MUCH easier. Even without a litterbox, you'll probably find a couple of potty spots. Usually in a corner. The rest of the colony will be basically clean. The occasional hard poop around the feeder maybe, and when you have a litter there will be small droppings here and there. BUT on the whole it's pretty clean.
What I've found the most effective for the potty corners or litterbox is to bed it with peat moss on the bottom (just sort of covering it maybe 1/2" deep) shavings over that, and then a light layer of their hay/straw/shavings general bedding. It doesn't stay layered long The buns will get in there and churn it up to see what it is.
One thing I'd like to try is coconut fiber. It can be purchased at a petstore that has reptiles, and some greenhouse/plant stores are carrying it now. It's highly absorbent and non toxic.
On the corner potty spots, I use the same layering technique, but a little heavier with the shavings. For some reason, my girls don't turn THOSE over.
I've been cleaning the litterbox every few days, and the other potty corner. If it goes a week, it's still okay, just starting to give off a little ammonia smell. The rest of the floor gets checked for spots, and every couple weeks gets changed now because of the kits....when there were only the 3 adults, I didn't need to change the rest of the floor at all.
What I've found the most effective for the potty corners or litterbox is to bed it with peat moss on the bottom (just sort of covering it maybe 1/2" deep) shavings over that, and then a light layer of their hay/straw/shavings general bedding. It doesn't stay layered long The buns will get in there and churn it up to see what it is.
One thing I'd like to try is coconut fiber. It can be purchased at a petstore that has reptiles, and some greenhouse/plant stores are carrying it now. It's highly absorbent and non toxic.
On the corner potty spots, I use the same layering technique, but a little heavier with the shavings. For some reason, my girls don't turn THOSE over.
I've been cleaning the litterbox every few days, and the other potty corner. If it goes a week, it's still okay, just starting to give off a little ammonia smell. The rest of the floor gets checked for spots, and every couple weeks gets changed now because of the kits....when there were only the 3 adults, I didn't need to change the rest of the floor at all.