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Originally Posted by Vinman
I have to say I like the coco fiber, like how dense it is as it insolates in case of heat spikes.
I had good results with it in the past but after this I will never use it again. I lo0st thousands and thousands of dollars.
Being Sphagnum moss come from nature we have no idea what natural toxins or pathogens it was exposed too.
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Hey Vinnie
Good to see you're still in the hobby. my first couple of years I used a lot of different substrates to figure out which incubation material would work the best for me; different things work for different people, each of us sort of "has a relationship" with whatever works best for us.
I've used the Florida sphag moss, it's usually loaded with pine straw oaak leaves sand mud and other gunk, totally great for orchids staghorn ferns and sprouting bromeliad seeds, but absolutely horrible for reptile eggs.
I saw "compressed chilean sphagnum moss" at a growers supply store and gave it a try, it's pure long strand golden moss, hand harvested in Chile, not machine harvested in Florida. I had excellent results with it. If I didn't use all of the wetted material for eggs then I'd use it for garden projects. Single use product. Kind of hard to come by, I think Josh's Frogs online carries it. I also see a lot of other sellers mis-labelling their other products as chilean.
Anyways, thats what worked best for me.
For the coco fiber, I suspect you're getting it in bulk compressed bales/cubes and not in half opened old material in an gardeners storage house. Best intentions, not arguing. Do what works the best for you. I haven't had pets since 2015, thinking about it again. You always did produce some premo exceptional critters.
dp