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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 193865" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>When I was at school. We had a large garden & within it, a large commercial size greenhouse. Each year myself & a couple of friends, would dig out the soil out, in the green house, down to a depth of about 2 feet. Sterilise the soil & mix it with some decent well made compost before returning it. </p><p></p><p>Steralising soil involves cooking it. Our soil steriliser, took a barrow full of soil at a time & heated it, to a reasonable temperature. What temperature, I do not know, but it produced lots of thick white & putrid steam & the soil was too hot to handle once cooked. </p><p></p><p>If cooking is the way it is done by the barrow full, then that is the way I would do it for a few inches of substrate in my enclosure. But personally I now have the luxury, of being able to dehydrate coir blocks & allowing what I need to dry out naturally before use. It only takes a few days & I now always keep some very dry & some slightly moist substrate ready to use. It takes up very little space & means I always have the correct substrate available. I keep the dry substrate in an unused enclosure & it becomes dust dry & the moist is kept in a plastic bag & I add more moisture if needed.</p><p></p><p>Moist substrate dries out quickly & do not feel that all of your substrate, even for a desert species needs to be very dry. Even if only the top half inch is dry, The tank may be a little humid for a few days, but all of it, will dry out over a week or two. Even deserts get some rain, sometimes. So a little moisture, is not fatal to even desert species.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 193865, member: 29323"] When I was at school. We had a large garden & within it, a large commercial size greenhouse. Each year myself & a couple of friends, would dig out the soil out, in the green house, down to a depth of about 2 feet. Sterilise the soil & mix it with some decent well made compost before returning it. Steralising soil involves cooking it. Our soil steriliser, took a barrow full of soil at a time & heated it, to a reasonable temperature. What temperature, I do not know, but it produced lots of thick white & putrid steam & the soil was too hot to handle once cooked. If cooking is the way it is done by the barrow full, then that is the way I would do it for a few inches of substrate in my enclosure. But personally I now have the luxury, of being able to dehydrate coir blocks & allowing what I need to dry out naturally before use. It only takes a few days & I now always keep some very dry & some slightly moist substrate ready to use. It takes up very little space & means I always have the correct substrate available. I keep the dry substrate in an unused enclosure & it becomes dust dry & the moist is kept in a plastic bag & I add more moisture if needed. Moist substrate dries out quickly & do not feel that all of your substrate, even for a desert species needs to be very dry. Even if only the top half inch is dry, The tank may be a little humid for a few days, but all of it, will dry out over a week or two. Even deserts get some rain, sometimes. So a little moisture, is not fatal to even desert species. [/QUOTE]
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