Shedon's mom
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Hi everyone, thanks to advice from many of you, Sheldon (young adult male Sulcata about 30 pounds) is now using a nice outdoors hide box we built him. Are soft wood chips (such as pine or cedar) ok for the bottom of the hide box, or do torts eat those? We need some dense substrate on the floor so he can easily climb onto 4" platform we have his Kane mat on (built the platform to try to keep hay off the mat) and would rather not use dirt, and hay as the only floor substrate is not dense enough to give him the height to reach the mat. I see that some folks use Cypress mulch for them, so thought wood chips would be similar.