This is from Tom's "how to raise hatchling sulcatas" thread. --- Substrate: Coco coir. Cypress mulch. Orchid bark. Plain, additive free, soil. Sphagnum peat moss. Pick one or any combination. I recommend you do NOT use any sand, wood shavings, corn cob bedding, walnut shell bedding, alfalfa or grass pellets, newspaper bedding, any type of hay or any other new fad bedding that comes along. Keep your substrate damp to increase the humidity in the enclosure. If you can keep your humidity around 80% at tortoise level, you'll have a healthy, well hydrated, pyramid free, happy tortoise. Sometimes I cover part of the top of the enclosure to hold in humidity.
I was wondering, what kind of substrate do you recommend? Also, Which one retains water the best, do any of them have a bad scent, and which one is easiest to walk on for a hatchling sulcata?
Im trying to find the best possible substrate for Otis and I cant decide! Pleases help me out.
-Thanks!
I was wondering, what kind of substrate do you recommend? Also, Which one retains water the best, do any of them have a bad scent, and which one is easiest to walk on for a hatchling sulcata?
Im trying to find the best possible substrate for Otis and I cant decide! Pleases help me out.
-Thanks!