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Ummmmm. Why is that?
You are buying eco earth in 10 lb bags at home depot? Sounds crazy unlikely
Yea, I put a thin layer of moistened vermiculite on the bottom and cover that with my 50/50 mix. It holds moisture great and helps maintain humidity.i'll have to pick some up. so 50/50 that and coco fiber. add a little vermiculite for the genic to help with moisture. I got a plan
It depends on the store. The stores in this district don't stock any coir, but we could transfer it for a cost from another district or special order it. We'd get a small amount of the seedling pods each spring but that was a 1 order deal and that's all we got for the year. I guess if you wanted to take those and soak them to get a handful of coconut fiber you could lol you'd need a bunch for an enclosure, 3 or 4 for the deli cups lots here use for slings. This is the discs that were about the size of a quarter and maybe 3/8" thick. You push the seed down in the premade hole in the center then soak the tray for the seed to sprout. I think we sold those in a tray of 6 and 12 if i recall correctly.Just to play devil's advocate here,
home depot does indeed sell coconut coir, organic and unfertilized. That's all eco earth is.
Simply compressed coconut coir. just search for it under that coconut coir, those lovely little seed starter pods, coir. All basically eco earth under a different name.
Just be sure to get UN fertilized and you're good to go at much lower cost.
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So you're saying don't eat beef? Sorry i can't survive without my steak and taters.Exo Terra plantation soil. THAT is something I will use. I will tell you why. There are organisms the size of a pin head that can carry tapeworms. Hookworms also can reside in soil. Organisms that small can transmit tapeworms to equines. When dealing with soil organisms, which is something I try to avoid by microwaving substrate and buying products for terrariums, you might not know WHAT you could introduce into your tarantula habitat or even to your own body. I have dealt with enough mites out of peat moss that I am done trying to go cheap and am only going to stick with what is merchandised for terrarium pets. Ta heck with risking the health of your spider to save a little money and there is no sense in risking your own. I KNOW that there are antibiotics in soil that cannot be replicated in modern medicne or replicated at all and I read the time article about how dirt can be good for you. It is the durn mess and the plain I am not putting up with any creepy crawlies I don't intentionally introduce into my tarantula's habitat.
I have mentioned the same, Kymura, in previous posts. Just not as detailed. Personally I don't expect anyone to do anything they do not want to do. It is that simple. You can provide the information all you want but it doesn't mean anyone is going to take it. I have even been griped at for big blocks of text instead of writing in choppy paragraphs, on this site. It is easy to understand that debaters learn by debating, some learn with a little argument, others a little prodding and prying, just about whatever you know that keeps the learning process going, as long as people learn how to keep things safe and tidy enough to prevent illness that is the main thing.