Good Substrate?

[narms72]

The substrate is peat soil (organic) and half aspen snake bedding. (Edit For people who believe in lose substrates what do you think?)
I am a person that believes in real substrates so I don't want to hear it!

 

[Claudiusx]

To answer your question, no.

In fact, i'd go so far to say that is actually a horrible choice in substrates, worse than sand.

You've made it clear "you don't want to hear it" so that's all I am gonna say, unless you want to open up your question to discussion.

-Brandon

 

[narms72]

When I say don't want to hear it I mean about lose substrate in general and sorry didn't mean to be rude.

 

[Claudiusx]

Thank you for explaining further, and I too apologize if I came off as rude.

-Brandon

 

[narms72]

Then what do you recommend for any kind of lose substrate or would you stay away completely?

 

[narms72]

I perfer lose because I think berdies are happyest (If that's correct spelling) on a more natural substrate. Plus it looks better!

 

[Claudiusx]

I, personally, would stay away completely.

It's an unnecessary risk in my opinion, and also in my opinion, I think some tiles look extremely nice in a dragons tank.

-Brandon

 

[narms72]

What about excavator? You can pack that down and its like rock but looks like sand.

 

[narms72]

Anyone?

 

[Jess]

I've heard crappy things about the excavator stuff.

Non-particle substrate is the safest and easiest to clean. You can aways give your beardie a digging box if you want him to have somewhere to dig! My beardie has alfalfa pellets in his dig box.

Peat wouldn't be a good substrate anyways. It's known for holding moisture really well, and that would raise the humidity too much for a bearded dragon. In my live planted tank, I have a mix of coco fiber, sphagnum peat and fir bark. It's much more suitable for tropical reptiles.

 

[narms72]

K thanks everybody Ill use news paper than.

 

[raptor1989]

You ever heard of easy liner works great and the color taupe or sandstone looks just like a nice layer of sand. The good thing is it isn't. I wanted to use glow in dark sand but when I heard impaction said no way. Tile looks good but to hard for dragons don't have the heart to use it because of injury.

 

[narms72]

K thanks!

 

[narms72]

For the beardie who will live in the tank I put down paper towle to prevent impaction.