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What is the best substrate for my indoor enclosures? Any suggestions?
substrate...whats best?
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Depends what species you are housing - but I like my peatmoss, Eco earth, potting soil, crypress mulch and orchid bark mixture.
Hello, and Welcome to the forum!
you can use,
Organic Topsoil and
Bed-A-Beast® mixture
Grass Hay
Aviod:
Alfalfa pellets
Sand, Calci-Sand, crushed oyster shells
Cedar shavings, pine shavings, or pine bark
you can use,
Organic Topsoil and
Bed-A-Beast® mixture
Grass Hay
Aviod:
Alfalfa pellets
Sand, Calci-Sand, crushed oyster shells
Cedar shavings, pine shavings, or pine bark
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right now i have a russian and a red foot. just sand or a mixture of sand and dirt?
We use cypress mulch, works great for us.
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I use cypress and coconut coir.
I would stay away from the sand, just because it tends to get everywhere and even in their eyes. Some people do use it successfully but i really think it is just to messy. Cypress mulch has worked best for me.
Just sand would be too big a risk of impaction. If you have it mixed in with the dirt or coir then it lessens that chance to basically nothing especially with a well hydrated animal. Helps too if you feed them on something rather then on the substrate. I myself use the coir, sand, then have some cypress areas and leaf piles (well until the tortoises come along and mix everything together. 
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My two favorites are cypress (or other hardwood much) and bioactive substrate (http://tortoiselibrary.com/indoorhousing.html).
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