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I ordered this live moss

http://lllreptile.com/v2/content/catalog/?section_string=cage-supplies&category_string=bedding&product_string=live-terrarium-moss (hopefully this link works)

I was thinking that it would be easier to keep up the humidity. I was also hoping that it would be easier to clean. I figured as well that the moss would be pesticide, herbicide... free as it is being sold from a reptile web site. I am having second thoughts, what are your opinions?

Right now I have a large dish of bed-a-beast, a large water dish, and wood chips in between. I also mist him nightly. I love how misting him makes him croak, I believe because he enjoys it, please correct me if I'm wrong. Right now I have an UTH (on a dimmer), a dayglow, and a nightglow. If I decide to use the moss I do have a reptile UVB light. I am definitely getting rid of the wood chips. Should I just go back to using bead-a-beast all over? Or should I give the moss a try?

I would suppose the croaking is more of a trigger from the rain (misting). If kept in conditions much like the frog would encounter during the breeding season in the wild, the frog should react to a stimulus such as the spraying of water (which would mean it is time to breed, and therefore calling would start). The only problem with live moss is that the horned frog is going to really tear it up. Not sure if it will do too well. I know it works well for smaller tropical frogs like darts, but I am not sure how well it would do in a horned frog tank as it would likely be ripped to shreds. I would stick with the bed a beast, but I suppose you could always decorate certain small areas with it.
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Andy Maddox
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Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

If you steal in hunger, I will kick you when you try. These stand for me. Name your god and bleed the freak. I'd like to see. How you all would bleed for me.-Alice In Chains

What do you mean by tear it up? The only thing my frog does is burry himself in the bead-a-beast, eat crickets, and occationally go in his water dish. Is this not normal? Should he be more active?

Thanks for the information on his croaking.

Lisa

No, that is quite normal. But if you have the moss say, sitting on top of the dirt, the frog will burrow into the moss and tear it to shreds. They are a fairly good sized frog, and when they burrow they tend to rip or shred things. Pothos work well because even though the horned frogs normally rip them to shreds and uproot them, they still live.
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Andy Maddox
AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

If you steal in hunger, I will kick you when you try. These stand for me. Name your god and bleed the freak. I'd like to see. How you all would bleed for me.-Alice In Chains

I bought a pac-man who the place kept in moss only. The only problem I am seeing now is that he must have eaten quite a bit of it while feeding because he is having some trouble passing the moss through.