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streamwalker
at Tue Dec 26 16:39:58 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by streamwalker ]
>>I am using the Peat Moss you can get from a gardening store for my babies. This is the ground up type, but most the substrates I see in pictures are mosses in their natural state. Which is better, or does it matter at all? On that note, is Spanish Moss OK to use? Thanks a lot.
The peat moss you are using is a great stable for rearing your young boxes. It is easily replaced, very absorbent and not difficult to maintain. The other mosses are each specific in their needs to stay healthy as they are living mosses.
In my pictures the moss is living; and would be severely damaged if keep constanly with boxies. Also if purchased dry and moistened it would rot rather quickly.
I let my young boxies exercise in the live moss and use it for pics due to the contrasting color.
I also have living Scottish Moss which is hardier and kept in my outdoor and some indoor pens.
Spanish Moss an aerial plant; lives off the bark of trees in high humidity areas.
It is common in garden shops as garnish for hanging plants.
I would not recommend Spanish Moss as a substrate as it would interfere with feeding, being very stringy, and rot as a bottom substrate extremely quickly.
Ric K.
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- Different Mosses - twilightfade212, Tue Dec 26 15:19:20 2006
 RE: Different Mosses - streamwalker, Tue Dec 26 16:39:58 2006
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