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i was in Lowes today and saw Cocconut fiber woven into sheets that are rolled around the sides of planters. Are these similar to the Cocco panels that black jungle sells. If they would work for mounting plants and creating a backround it would be a lot cheaper than using the panels as the price of the sheets is roughly 3 dollars for 2 sq feet. Anyone used similar products?

Thanks
Seth

n/p

I'm not sure if they are exactly the same, but I used that very same thing on a ten gal tank. It worked ok, but it is not as good as cork bark or tree fern panels.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
1.2.0 D. leucomelas
0.0.2 D. azureus

Black jungle sells cocco panels and coco fiber mats. What you are referring to sounds similsr to the coco fiber mats which are much cheaper but not nearly as good. There is nothing out there that I have seen like the coco fiber panels. They retain water excellent, and are easy to work with and mount plants on.

I like the pressed cocos fiber panels the best, but they are extremely expensive for some reason. So I tried putting a layer of the looser fibered coco mat on the back of a large tank and just siliconed a piece of pressed panel to this for each epiphyte. This works all right, but the matting just doesn't absorb and hold water like the pressed panels and I ended up stuffing in a lot of brown sphagnum.

Does anyone know why the pressed panels are so extremely expensive? I figured it out at approximately $1.60 a square inch for the last ones I purchased, which had gone up from a prior $11.00 a panel to $16.00 a panel.
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Patty
Lost River, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
3 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
4 D. leukomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos

I just think cork looks so much better. I just ordered a ton, and if I play my cards right I might get 2-3 tanks done out of it.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
1.2.0 D. leucomelas
0.0.2 D. azureus

I think the cocco panels are awesome. Unfortunatley the supplier is Vivaria projects in the Netherlands. That is one reason why they are so expensive. Black Jungle is the US supplier, but they get theirs from Vivaria projects.