What is the best way to set up a "Bioactive" substrate? I have mixed ground coconut, peat moss, play sand, and fired clay (which I found as unscented cat litter with carbon). None of this stuff seems to hold moisture for very long.



After a month and a half of spot cleaning and stirring there is no foul odor, yet it doesn't feel quite right. It sticks to the snakes and it's not supposed to.



I added orchid moss to the mix in an experimental tank that houses a green anole and a green tree frog, and that seems to be holding the moisture quite nicely now.



Thank you for your time,



Diego
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Diego & Tiffany's Zoo

SNAKES

4.4 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)

1.0.0 Boa Constrictor

0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa

0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake

1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake

0.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake

1.1.0 Ball Pythons

0.0.1 Ribbon Snake

0.0.2 Rosy Boas (Mid Baja & Baja)

0.1.0 Pueblan Milksnake

1.2.0 Kenyan Sand Boas

1.0.0 Western Hognose

0.1.0 Solomon Island Boa

1.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (River Road)

0.0.1 Desert Phase Kingsnake

LIZARDS

1.0.0 Frilled Dragon

3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)

0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard

0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink

1.0.0 Turquoise Sunburst Veiled Chameleon

0.0.3 Leopard Geckos

1.1.0 Yellow Niger Uromastyx

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• Bioactive Substrate - viborero, Fri May 12 05:33:59 2006