whats best for hide/humid boxes after I breed? Right now I have papers towels with spagnum moss not enough hieght for digging. Wal-mart and home depot don't sell vermiculite anymoe as it causing cancer! or somethign liek that so would it be ok to use shredded spagnummoss and peatmoss or whats best?
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1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
2 Blizzard females, pair of albino trempors male is tangerine
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
2 hatchlings on the way a blacknobbed sawback and a commonmusk 
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kurma
Aug 21, 2003 09:52 AM
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TasiaMay
Aug 21, 2003 10:39 AM
Vermiculite also works ... though not sure if it works as well as perilite. All I know is that my cresties love it in their humid hide! I haven't had any problems with impaction either. You can find it at Home Depot or Walmart too.
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TasiaMay
~ 0.0.3 dark fire morph cresties - Moose, Kreecher and Lilly
~ Female Yellow Lab - Tasia
KURma
Aug 21, 2003 11:37 AM
vermiculite is what I was talking about not being sold at wal-mart and home depot anymore. People really use periliet in leo cages?
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1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
2 Blizzard females, pair of albino trempors male is tangerine
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
2 hatchlings on the way a blacknobbed sawback and a commonmusk
TasiaMay
Aug 21, 2003 11:42 AM
Sorry ... meant to say perilite. I'm not sure if leo owners use this but it works well for my crested geckos.
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TasiaMay
~ 0.0.3 dark fire morph cresties - Moose, Kreecher and Lilly
~ Female Yellow Lab - Tasia
Cleopatra
Aug 21, 2003 11:50 AM
i used a product called Forest Bed that comes in block form for 5 bucks at Petco. It worked really well. Or you could try something like Bed-a-Beast.
Cleo
Dakman
Aug 21, 2003 03:54 PM
I wouldnt use perlite in the humid hide. only use if you want after youved removed the eggs and are putting them in a incubator. geckos will eat it. Try contacting some local green hose/nurserys for vermiculite, ive always got it at home depot garden center, just recently actually. have to check on that one.
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0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)
