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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarantula Trooper" data-source="post: 237579" data-attributes="member: 37740"><p>Don't think the charcoal brickets with the lighter fluid in them would be good at all ..lol. Natural charcoal would be the thing. No fluid brickets I still wouldn't bother but that's just me. The Biodudes Terra Areanea has charcoal added already but the stuff is expensive. That being said I love the stuff and you can do bioactive with no drainage layer but the few I have set up I still go with the separation mesh and clay balls. But with a tank that size, I'm guessing you would have about 50 dollars of dirt in it. As for your collected from the wild hide I would recommend a trip in the oven on bout 200 degrees or so to eradicate any unwanted guest or mold. Your build sounds extremely fun and best of luck with it. BTW when I enlarge my acrylic enclosures vent holes I use a Dremel tool but with a quarter inch piece of plexi I use standard drill bits starting fine and increasing in size and just trying to go slow. Happy Spoodering!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>