Large Indoor Winter Enclosure Substrate

[thecrawlingchaos]

Hello, all.

Now that the weather is cooling, my leopard is back indoors full-time. He's almost 3 years old and his indoor enclosure is an 8x4 table-style setup lined with pond liner.

Up until this point, I've used ZooMed forest floor mulch substrate. it's worked well, but months of spot cleaning has thinned it out quite a bit. It's time to replace it.

As the ZooMed mulch is quite expensive for an enclosure that size, I'd like to at least explore other options. Could I possibly just mix new forest Floor in with the mulch that currently remains? That doesn't seem like the cleanest option. Could I used hardware store cypress mulch, which is much cheaper? Is there another good choice that I am overlooking?

I appreciate any help anyone can provide. Cheers.

 

[wellington]

Yes to all the above. You could also use plain dirt mixed in or alone. Also cypress mulch or coconut coir. Mixing in some dirt, your would have a pretty good base to grow grass and weeds.

 

[mike taylor]

I went to Home Depot and got two bags of Cyprus mulch and six bags of fill dirt . I have a 8/8 indoor set up. I think it cost me $22.00 not to bad . If you go if they have bags that are opened or ripped the will sale them half off or more to save more cash.

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[Richsandwich]

For curiosity sakes can I see a pic of your setup? My next enclosure I want to make 4x8

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