About Dust, manufactured sands are indeed full of fine silica dust, not good. Natural sands are not, the dust as long blown away. So yes, those care sheets are partly right. Man made sands suck as do most man made materials.

Back to sands and hognose. You and I are still on different sides of that fast flowing river of yours, your theorizing that your hogs do not live in sandy areas. Yet you find them hunting near the surface in not so sandy areas. You and I will be on the same side of the river when I toss you a rope and you understand that whats important for snakes(many reptiles) is not where they hunt, that's a fluid behavior. Its all about where then nest. That is where they live. Where they hunt is like a restaurant, they go there to feed and come back to where they live. Most reptiles have two distinct parts of their range, nesting, tight and restricted, and foraging(finding food) open and not so restrictive. Eastern and western hogs are perfect examples. The eastern seaboard has lots of amphibs and lots of species of amphibians. And a very limited number of lizard species. The west is the opposite, We have lots and lots of lizards and lots of species, and very few amphibs. Yet we have hognose, they are hognose with the exception of prey type, the western hogs must utilize a wider base of prey or they will not exist. So they utilize lizards, mammals, birds etc to a much greater extent then easterns. end part 2

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