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I've seen a lot of people use that and a lot use a soil/sand or soil/sand/clay mixture with no problems. The inventor of the Arcadia EarthMix is very well respected within the reptile keeping community and knows his stuff. The dragon's body creates a mucus coat around any pieces of substrate...

I too want to get a bearded dragon and keep it in a bioactive viv. It just makes more sense than tile or newspaper. They're kept active by hunting the cuc especially if you include feeders like dubia. Some even keep crickets in their bioactive viv but I've been recommended not to do that...