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| the great substraight debate | |
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| Topic Started: 9 Feb 2009, 05:32 PM (388 Views) | |
| Post #1 9 Feb 2009, 05:32 PM | Poizon |
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it doesn't matter what forum you go on, there is always a great substraight debate going on. many people use partical substraight like sand. so lets take a look at this for instance. sand CAN impact your leo, there's no getting round it, it doesn't happen to everyone, but it is a real possibility. I used to use sand, back when i didnt know no better. that is until i witnessed one of my leos eating it. people say that 'oh but if you have a dish of calcium in the viv they wont eat the sand' well i'm afraid that's wrong. i had a colony in a 4ft viv, so i had TWO dishes of calcium in ther4e, and it still didn't stop them. i have brought a leo from a shop and she was kept on half sand and half gravel, well when she was defecating, it was pure sand, and she even (how i do not know) passed a stone! so she is very lucky to be alive. when people say i really want to use sand i say this, substraight is of course ultimately your choice, all i ask is that you think carefully about the risks and if you think that its a risk worth taking. your leo CAN get impacted, dosent mean they will as some are lucky to be kept on any and never get impacted, but as long as they on it, there will always be that risk. Personally, i use kitchen roll, its safe and i think it looks nice. and no, you cant use the argument that sand is in their natural habitat as their natural habitat is rocky areas with maybe a very thin layer of sand, but they do not live in sand dunes! |
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