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Is it ok is my Leo eats some sphagnum moss from time to time? That is the substrate i use in her humid hide, and she has been eating it when she strikes at her crickets and misses, picking up the moss instead.

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I had this same problem with my leos, but since they were fed in bowls I knew that they must be ingesting it on purpose. It seemed like they had trouble pooping it out. Sometimes they would grab it and pull it out :rolleyes: As soon as I saw this, I got rid of it in all my hides. I've heard about impactions from moss and I don't want to go there.

If they're eating it, they definately are at risk. You should either modify your feeding technique so that it's not ingested or switch substrates. I use compressed cocconut fiber in all my hides now and have never had a problem. I've also never hear of a problem with peat moss as a humid hide substrate.

-Alice
 
I had the same problem; some of my leos are eating the sphagnum moss during shedding in the humid hide. I've seen strings of moss in their poop and I've also heard one of my female scream while trying hard to poop out the moss. I tried placing a few round rocks in their hide to press down the moss (so they don't stick up), but that causes the moss to mold.

Now, I am switching to coconut fibre (see my post on coconut fibre). Don't know how well that'll work yet, just did the change yesterday; but most of my leos didn't sleep in their humid hide today.
 
I am thinking of switching to the eco-earth, but I could see the same problem happening, she strikes at a cricket and gets a mouthful of the dirt. I can't think of a way to keep the crickets out of the hide either.
 
just get a containter thats high, put the hole in the top, i use conainters that are 3 1/2 inches high for my gravid females and they get in and out just fine

i dont use crickets, but i dont see how they would get in unless you put em in
 
Eco-earth is virtually identical to to bed-a-beast. I've occaisionally had some show up in poop. But, in the 8+ years I've been using compressed coconut fiber substrates in the moist hides (babies as well as adults), I've never had an impaction. Although I guess anything is possible, I've used in the moist hides of 100's of leos without a prob.
-Alice
 
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