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The best "medicine" for a baby is the correct temperature, environment and diet.

All of that is right here:

Hello Tom, I was wondering about your substrate comment. I started out using Orchid Bark & Eco earth but I was told by a few different sources that a soil mix was much better. Now I am using a mix of organic top soil, eco earth & peat moss. They said it's better to maintain humidity levels & is more natural for them as well. I am just having issues with keeping fungus fly's away. What do you think about this issue?

Thanks,
Walter
 

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Hello Tom, I was wondering about your substrate comment. I started out using Orchid Bark & Eco earth but I was told by a few different sources that a soil mix was much better. Now I am using a mix of organic top soil, eco earth & peat moss. They said it's better to maintain humidity levels & is more natural for them as well. I am just having issues with keeping fungus fly's away. What do you think about this issue?

Thanks,
Walter
You got bad, old, out-dated, incorrect advice.

Soil should never be used under tortoises. There is no way to know what composted yard waste it is made from and it could be toxic. The manufactures and sellers do not intend for small animals to be living on their product in a an enclosure.

Peat can rot their plastrons. Presumably it is too acidic. Long fiber moss will be eaten and its an impaction risk.

Soil does not maintain humidity any better or any differently than o bark or coir, and it is not "more natural" either.

Springtails and phorid flies come from the surrounding environment and will colonize any warm damp substrate in any tortoise enclosure.
 

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