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i live in the southern united states could i collect moss to put in terrariums the? how do i make it safe to keep there?

matt

As long as you collect the moss from a pesticide-free area, it is safe. You may get some slugs or some odd critters that will worry you, from it, but these aren't fatal. The moss you collect may or may not grow in terrarium conditions. If it doesn't, too bad, it simply doesn't. If it does, that's great. It's not going to contain parasites and such that will affect your dart frogs. They will eat all the small mites and other buggies it may contain. Slugs may be a sort of problem, and do eat plants, but you can remove them whenever you find them, and as long as you don't get neurotic about some holes in plant leaves, they are really no big deal. You will experience a lot of things you've never seen before that come and go in your tank, such as fungi, mushrooms, if you are lucky, and strange wormy critters that crawl on the glass, millipedes, maybe even sow bugs. These will all come and go as the tank balances out into a biological balance. Most of what you will see is a sign of a healthy tank rather than a vital concern.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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