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I am currently using Peat Moss as a substrate for my BRP. I bought a big bag from Home Depot for 8.00 dollars. I placed a handful in a ceramic bowl with cover and my 1 year old BRP immediately burrowed inside it. I frequently spray the moss from time to time. Temps are 75 degrees on the cool side. Will the peat moss harm the reptile?
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I use an inch or so in the hide (sweater box) along with an inch of green moss. All nice and moist. You will have to change out every week or two to prevent mold/mildew. Sometimes sooner if they decide it makes a nice bathroom. My female BRB's are gravid now and makes for less cleaning, they don't eat, they don't poop. Still have to change water and moss box though.

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave,
...Those are great looking cages. Are those glass fish bowls you are using as water bowls?
Jeff

>>I use an inch or so in the hide (sweater box) along with an inch of green moss. All nice and moist. You will have to change out every week or two to prevent mold/mildew. Sometimes sooner if they decide it makes a nice bathroom. My female BRB's are gravid now and makes for less cleaning, they don't eat, they don't poop. Still have to change water and moss box though.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
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>>0.1 Wife
>>0.2 kids
>>4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
>>1.1 Ball python
>>0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
>>1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
>>0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
>>0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
>>0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Yes, I use the two gallon squat fish bowls. Easy to clean and large enough for two or three to soak at once.

Thank you, I designed/built them myself. I now have two of them. The BRB's love the pipes. For all but gravid season, I leave at least some open so they can cruise cage to cage. For breeding season, I divide vertically and seperate the BRB's into my chosen breeding groups, one male and two or three females. They do the rest
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I am using sphagnum peat moss in the hides of my rainbows. It works very well to keep a high humidity and they like to burrow into it. There shouldn't be any problem in using this. IMO, peat moss would be a pain in the you-know-what to use as a primary substrate. It formulated with such small particles that it would be difficult to clean and if not kept at it's threshold of water saturation capacity it would be fine and dusty to use as a substrate. I would speculate that unless it was always kept at it's saturation that it could easily be inhaled.

Linda
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I appreciate all the feedback.Thx
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