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For those who use Play sand

Bacula said:
Thanks for the heads up i have been looking into types of lay bin material and I'm not sure what to use.
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Iv used potting soil kind of damp so that it holds together while shes making her tunnel. If it crumbles she will start over in another area . Try to get the kind with out big punks of bark I it.
 
Around the midwest pet stores push Calcium sand wich is edible crystals that when swallowed gives calcium so xtra calcium supliments are not needed! I use it sometimes but it gets expensive other wise its newspapers!
 
Be careful with that...I've seen leopard geckos in pet stores that,when turned over and transparent belly exposed,were full of it and dying.
 
angie.h said:
Be careful with that...I've seen leopard geckos in pet stores that,when turned over and transparent belly exposed,were full of it and dying.
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I agree with Angie. I believe the calcium that is used in Calci-sand is CaCO3 (Calcium Carbonate). It turns hard as a rock when it's wet. Now, just imagine it getting wet inside your lizard's stomach... not a good thing.


I don't use any substrate with my little dragons, it just makes it easier for feeders to hide in. I give my babies a basking ornament (usually a small fire-brick, the kind without holes). I wash the ornament when needed and swap it out every couple months with a new one, because even though I clean them there is still the chance of it becoming a bacteria breeding ground.

I just use a single sheet of newspaper with my large dragons. I also give them a brick. I avoid using newspaper with color on it, for two reasons: 1) most of my dragons see the green/blue print and try to eat it :shrug01: and 2) for some reason the colored print leaves marks on my cage bottom, especially when a dragon poops on it and the poop kinda soaks the colors.
 
LOL !! I don't use color print newspaper for the same reason...my dragons love anything green or red and will try to tear it up and they don't mind the taste!
 
I was trying to find an old thread i had read about calcium sand and how it can have a negative affect. But I could not find it, but i have read that it can still have a bad affect just like regular sand. Its not as digestible as they make it saound. I wouldn't use it.
 
angie.h said:
LOL !! I don't use color print newspaper for the same reason...my dragons love anything green or red and will try to tear it up and they don't mind the taste!
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My dragons don't try to eat the paper. But i think they can read now from having so much print transfered onto the white melamine. I take the paper of and it looks as if it were still there. I doubled up the paper now and it doesn't happen anymore.
 
I have switched back and forth over time. Never had a problem with sand, but it is dirty and dusty. I just made the switch back to paper again recently and am happy I did. Uline.com Kraft paper rolls make it easy and neat. They also have unprinted newspaper if thats what you like. But, after using the kraft paper the newspaper is very thin and not very absorbent. The kraft paper holds up much better.
 
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