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Hello boys and girls. I did a search on the website in regards to the appropriate substrate mix for a blondi and found that most people found a mix of peat/soil or simply all peat is the best way to go (maybe with a false bottom of gravel or vermiculite as well). I have a few quesions about this though -
1. Peat is very acidic, can this have any detrimental effects on the T?
2. It seems to me that soil and peat *may* have the ability to collapse once the T has made this his/her burrow. So has anyone found this to be true? Also lets say (God forbid) that happens, can a T crawl out of a few inches of substrate easily?
3. If I go with peat and soil or just peat, should I add a little bid of bark (the Forest Floor brand, the kind that hold humidity well and isn't abrasive) to the substrate to allow for easier burrowing?
4. How often should the substrate be changed? I read that Ts do not leave many remnants of meals behind (unless they are only "sorta" hungry, but blondi seems hungry all the time ) so it seems that mold/flies would be the big issue here. I hope not too often for I wouldn't want to destroy the Ts burrow all the time...maybe once every 2 months?
Thanks to anyone with answers and thanks to all you helpers on this board, you guys are awesome :clap:
1. Peat is very acidic, can this have any detrimental effects on the T?
2. It seems to me that soil and peat *may* have the ability to collapse once the T has made this his/her burrow. So has anyone found this to be true? Also lets say (God forbid) that happens, can a T crawl out of a few inches of substrate easily?
3. If I go with peat and soil or just peat, should I add a little bid of bark (the Forest Floor brand, the kind that hold humidity well and isn't abrasive) to the substrate to allow for easier burrowing?
4. How often should the substrate be changed? I read that Ts do not leave many remnants of meals behind (unless they are only "sorta" hungry, but blondi seems hungry all the time ) so it seems that mold/flies would be the big issue here. I hope not too often for I wouldn't want to destroy the Ts burrow all the time...maybe once every 2 months?
Thanks to anyone with answers and thanks to all you helpers on this board, you guys are awesome :clap: