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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DewDrop" data-source="post: 58953" data-attributes="member: 4217">Well I had some left over aquarium salt and did read that it inhibited pest organisms, so I decided to try it.  As far as making it an added expense, no, I haven't done that and haven't decided to continue once the salt runs out. Just a small box of salt like I have should last for years. 16oz of API salt, it isn't indicated for anything but fish, so of course there will be plenty of nay says about it, which is good that there are reminders not to do it to my response because it reminds people that the directions are there to be read and followed not experimented with. How quaint. Anyway.  Yet I am way too sensitive to mold and fungus not to add the salt as a preventative.   Since I am using microwaved peat moss after discovering soil mites the orbatid variety that can pass tapeworms to a horse if they contract it, that were not infective, thankfully, I figure hey, what's a little salt. Apparently the salt inhibited the orbatids for awhile, until it evaporated down to a useless amount of salinity. But after that experience, no more peat moss ever, ever again, for anything, for me. After 5 minutes in the microwave for the peat and ten for the gravel if anything is living in that substrate that isn't a tarantula, fondly placed back in the habitat once it was all cool and clean, it will be beyond my ability to comprehend. Oh the heck I have had with getting the best balance for the environment for my tarantulas, but it has been educational and fun.</blockquote>

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