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<blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 133011" data-attributes="member: 27883"><p>Thanks for explaining. Sorry to hear about your spiders.</p><p></p><p> I've always had a strong aversion to toxic pesticides. I use traps for the rats, mice, gophers and ground squirrels. I use hawks to control the rabbit population. I use borax and sugar water baits for the ants. I use lacewings, mantids and ladybugs to keep the bugs off my tortoise food plants. I use roach motels (sticky traps) for escapee or wild roaches. I use oral Ivermectin to fight ecto-parasites on the pigeons and chickens. I don't use any chemicals on the lawn because it is all tortoise food. If a good weed pops up, its fed to the tortoises. If a bad weed pops up, its pulled out by the root and tossed in the trash. I fertilize the lawn and plants with fish tank water after water changes.</p><p></p><p>As a culture, I wish we didn't all use so many toxic chemicals on a daily basis. So many of them are used ineffectively anyway.</p><p></p><p>Rant over. Back to which substrate to use...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tortoise Tom, post: 133011, member: 27883"] Thanks for explaining. Sorry to hear about your spiders. I've always had a strong aversion to toxic pesticides. I use traps for the rats, mice, gophers and ground squirrels. I use hawks to control the rabbit population. I use borax and sugar water baits for the ants. I use lacewings, mantids and ladybugs to keep the bugs off my tortoise food plants. I use roach motels (sticky traps) for escapee or wild roaches. I use oral Ivermectin to fight ecto-parasites on the pigeons and chickens. I don't use any chemicals on the lawn because it is all tortoise food. If a good weed pops up, its fed to the tortoises. If a bad weed pops up, its pulled out by the root and tossed in the trash. I fertilize the lawn and plants with fish tank water after water changes. As a culture, I wish we didn't all use so many toxic chemicals on a daily basis. So many of them are used ineffectively anyway. Rant over. Back to which substrate to use... [/QUOTE]
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