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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 146697" data-attributes="member: 27444">Cork bark that I buy isnt sterilized....I wouldnt buy it if it was. I just shake it off and throw it in...been doing it for a for decades.You can use wood from outside...you need to make sure it wasn't in a area that was sprayed with insecticides. The micro organisms living in the wood are not going to harm your Tarantula at all. I fact they do more to help then to wash and scrub them away. Tarantulas have been living and surviving in this stuff for millions of years. If you have mold you have a need for ventilation...its pretty simple. Sterilizing merely opens whatever it is to all kinds of molds and such. Things can quickly colonize and take over sterilized things. Sterilizing disrupts the natural balance.</blockquote>