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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 143348" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>Welcome!</p><p>Natural peat (as opposed to coir/coco peat) is mined from the ground much as minerals are, large tracts of swamp-land or old swamp-land are destroyed to obtain the peat which is why using it is a bit controversial and why coco peat is now widely used in it's place in both the pet and gardening industries. Personally I find coco peat to be a great product in both the garden and in enclosures, my preferred mix is one part sand to 6 parts coco peat as this is close to the sandy soils found here. Using sand for tarantulas is debatable, some say sand will damage the exoskeleton or erode the joints in it but a lot of my scorpions and tarantulas come from sandy areas in nature so for them I would imagine it's not a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 143348, member: 27677"] Welcome! Natural peat (as opposed to coir/coco peat) is mined from the ground much as minerals are, large tracts of swamp-land or old swamp-land are destroyed to obtain the peat which is why using it is a bit controversial and why coco peat is now widely used in it's place in both the pet and gardening industries. Personally I find coco peat to be a great product in both the garden and in enclosures, my preferred mix is one part sand to 6 parts coco peat as this is close to the sandy soils found here. Using sand for tarantulas is debatable, some say sand will damage the exoskeleton or erode the joints in it but a lot of my scorpions and tarantulas come from sandy areas in nature so for them I would imagine it's not a problem. [/QUOTE]
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