Coir Mulch????

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Nae
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Coir Mulch????

Postby Nae » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:21 pm

Heya folk!!!

Long time no see!!
Long story short became very unwell, wound up in hospital, lost job, moved out of home to the city to be closer to support and medical services, have been out of work for a few months and yeah.
But! I finally have a proper job which means Zeke will be moving down to live with me very soon!!! (Saw him for the first time in months two weeks ago)

As such I've gone out and brought him a snazzy new set up which I'm going to completely do up with handmade fake rocks and plants.

But my main concern is my substrate of choice. I definitely want a natural look (the paper pellets have worked excellently for the last 5 years but alas) so I brought a block of coir mulch hearing that it's fine.

However when I rehydrated it (quite the mission in an apartment Ahahaha!) I have become slightly concerned about how fine some bits of it are, and how large other bits are.

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Am I just being paranoid??
He's going to have large smooth surfaces of rock when I'm done landscaping, and I'm considering isolating his hiding places so as then perhaps he can have the newspaper pellets just in there. Not that he's much of a burrower~

Thanks!
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Re: Coir Mulch????

Postby NickBrahz » Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:47 pm

My 3 bubs have been on Coir mulch for roughly 18 months now and i am yet to have any issues with it.
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Re: Coir Mulch????

Postby Edward » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:10 am

It's great to see you back, Nae. :2thumbs:

No personal experience with it but that mulch looks just fine to me.
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Re: Coir Mulch????

Postby splashy07 » Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:11 pm

Been using it forever for some of my other reptiles, recently started using it for all my BTs and they love it and so do I!
Cheap and easy to spot clean and looks great. Welcome back, you were sorely missed! Hope you are recovering nicely and feeling great!
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Re: Coir Mulch????

Postby Nae » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:53 pm

Sweet, thanks guys! :mrgreen:
It looked different from other coir mulches I saw online so yeah just got a little worried~

splashy07 wrote:Been using it forever for some of my other reptiles, recently started using it for all my BTs and they love it and so do I!
Cheap and easy to spot clean and looks great. Welcome back, you were sorely missed! Hope you are recovering nicely and feeling great!


Thank you <3 I still have relapses and such, but for the most part I am going much better :D
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