i have looked though alot of peoples pics on here of enclosers and so have you, i think they are all very impressive and can see that most are using like a mud/soil looking flooring for there tortoise i have this wood chipping especailly designed for tortoises or something like that but would like to no that the mud is and its benefits if any?

Some of the mixes that you are speaking of are a 50% organic topsoil/50% sand mixture and some of them are a 50/50 of bed a beast/sand mixture. Those are very common.

Rosiee, What type of bark are you using? What is the name on the package?

I use a mix of 70% topsoil and 30% playsand