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New tarantula owner, need really good advice on buying bedding/substrate.
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<blockquote data-quote="DreadedNeith" data-source="post: 135590" data-attributes="member: 28071"><p>Happy I could help even if just a little. Are you not able to order online? Do they have a Home Depot or Lows near you?</p><p>also when going into a garden center or hardware store, ask if they have top soil. Dont ask for potting soils or stuff for animal enclosures. The people there dont usually knkw anything about the soil or potting mixes they are selling. Just try to find potting soil and read the ingredients. Look to be sure that it is only potting soil and doesnt have any kind of fertilizers (organis or not), chemicals, spruce, cedar, or pine wood or bark. Since you posted I've done a bunch of research and this is the best I could come up with. I am very interested in using soil as i want to grow moss and plants inside my enclosure. Ive also read that a lot of people are using soil collected from outside. I'd just make sure there are no chemicals, fertilizers, spruce, pine, or cedar bark, and also no where near a road as oils and chemicals from cars can leach into soil and near by plants. I eventually want soil in my Ts enclosure with natural cleaners like springtails. I really want to creat an environment that is very close to the environment my Avic would be in in the wild.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DreadedNeith, post: 135590, member: 28071"] Happy I could help even if just a little. Are you not able to order online? Do they have a Home Depot or Lows near you? also when going into a garden center or hardware store, ask if they have top soil. Dont ask for potting soils or stuff for animal enclosures. The people there dont usually knkw anything about the soil or potting mixes they are selling. Just try to find potting soil and read the ingredients. Look to be sure that it is only potting soil and doesnt have any kind of fertilizers (organis or not), chemicals, spruce, cedar, or pine wood or bark. Since you posted I've done a bunch of research and this is the best I could come up with. I am very interested in using soil as i want to grow moss and plants inside my enclosure. Ive also read that a lot of people are using soil collected from outside. I'd just make sure there are no chemicals, fertilizers, spruce, pine, or cedar bark, and also no where near a road as oils and chemicals from cars can leach into soil and near by plants. I eventually want soil in my Ts enclosure with natural cleaners like springtails. I really want to creat an environment that is very close to the environment my Avic would be in in the wild. [/QUOTE]
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