A gardener needs 6 bushels of a potting medium of 40% peat moss and 60% vermiculite. He decides to add 100% vermiculite to his current potting medium that is 50% peat moss and 50% vermiculite. The gardener has 5 bushels of the 50% peat moss and 50% vermiculite mix. Does he have enough of the 50/50 mix to make 6 bushels of the 40% peat moss and 60% vermiculite mix? Explain.
NOOOO, the best substrate is none !! If you want to use something, newspaper , paper towels or repti carpet - fake grass available cheaper @ places like Lowes, keep several cut to size so you can change to clean and clean one, otherwise you risk the reptile getting impacted if they swallow substrates then sick dying ! Take Care
Vermiculite sticks to just about everything, so I don't recommend using it for anything other than an incubator substrate. Not even for a laybox. Coconut bedding is also not good for a leopard gecko, as leopard geckos are not tropical. If it's been sitting outside, you also don't know what kind of bugs, mold spores, or toxins are in it. For now, use paper towel instead if you don't have actual leopard gecko substrate and need to clean the cage.
