Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New articles
New media comments
New article comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Articles
New articles
New comments
Search articles
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Dark Theme
Contact us
Close Menu
Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts.
Sign up today!
Forums
Tarantula Forum Topics
Tarantula Enclosures
Substrate Choices
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 132995" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>Zilla is a brand name as far as I'm aware Tom.</p><p>Great info about the composted garden waste, it's composted here at the local Rubbish Dumps, some is sold as mulch, the finer stuff as compost. The public can buy it and I know the council uses it but whether it's sold to companies as a component of their products I don't know. The fact remains that you can't have compost or organic based soil without plant material and it has to come from somewhere. </p><p></p><p>Finely ground coconut husk is known by many different names as I've found out, but that is what people are referring to, usually the words coco or coir are in the name and it usually comes as a compressed brick that you expand with water. It is sold loose too but the price is greatly inflated.</p><p></p><p>Other coconut husk products are a roughly chopped product, sold loose and as bricks that is used as mulch, and another that is long fibres. I've seen the long fibre version in both pet shops and garden shops. </p><p></p><p>For the finely ground product the term peat is often used because it is used as a sustainable replacement for mined peat in many industries. </p><p></p><p>More often than not in animal husbandry if peat is referred to it is the finely ground coconut husk product they are referring to not the mined peat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 132995, member: 27677"] Zilla is a brand name as far as I'm aware Tom. Great info about the composted garden waste, it's composted here at the local Rubbish Dumps, some is sold as mulch, the finer stuff as compost. The public can buy it and I know the council uses it but whether it's sold to companies as a component of their products I don't know. The fact remains that you can't have compost or organic based soil without plant material and it has to come from somewhere. Finely ground coconut husk is known by many different names as I've found out, but that is what people are referring to, usually the words coco or coir are in the name and it usually comes as a compressed brick that you expand with water. It is sold loose too but the price is greatly inflated. Other coconut husk products are a roughly chopped product, sold loose and as bricks that is used as mulch, and another that is long fibres. I've seen the long fibre version in both pet shops and garden shops. For the finely ground product the term peat is often used because it is used as a sustainable replacement for mined peat in many industries. More often than not in animal husbandry if peat is referred to it is the finely ground coconut husk product they are referring to not the mined peat. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Tarantula Forum Topics
Tarantula Enclosures
Substrate Choices
Top