Washed play sand is usually what's recommended to use in laying bins for gravid females, but I've preferred to use Ecoearth in the past for my veiled. She's laid in it without problem so I've always kept that in my laying bins since.
However, I've decided to start experimenting a bit with other laying media. After all, I've never been to any tropical rain forest where the soil consisted of pure sand.
So this time for my panther chameleon I decided to mix together one part washed play sand to about 5 parts top soil (the only soil I could find with NOTHING in it except just dirt).
Mixing it together first and adding in water slowly to get it evenly damp.
Still not quite wet enough, but you can see what it looks like.
From my powers of deduction this seems like a more natural media, but we'll have to wait and see what the girls think of this.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
However, I've decided to start experimenting a bit with other laying media. After all, I've never been to any tropical rain forest where the soil consisted of pure sand.
So this time for my panther chameleon I decided to mix together one part washed play sand to about 5 parts top soil (the only soil I could find with NOTHING in it except just dirt).
Mixing it together first and adding in water slowly to get it evenly damp.
Still not quite wet enough, but you can see what it looks like.
From my powers of deduction this seems like a more natural media, but we'll have to wait and see what the girls think of this.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
