Crypress mulch blend?

[Diablo]

Ok I think I remembered reading somewhere on here about the blend being bad somehow. I went ahead and bought two bags from home depot because I could'nt find anything on here about the blend not being good. Can someone inform me if the blend is not good for a tegu or not?

 

[Dubya]

Ok I think I remembered reading somewhere on here about the blend being bad somehow. I went ahead and bought two bags from home depot because I could'nt find anything on here about the blend not being good. Can someone inform me if the blend is not good for a tegu or not?

The blend could have something bad in it. Like maybe cedar.

 

[Diablo]

Home depot and lowes only have the blend....this sucks. Can't find pure anywhere

 

[Skeetzy]

I'm in the same boat, except can't even find blend. The only cypress is at my local Agway, and is $10 a 3 cu ft bag.

 

[jwyo]

i have had good luck with a soil, sand, moss, leaf litter mixture.

 

[Diablo]

i have had good luck with a soil, sand, moss, leaf litter mixture.

where do you usually get all that from?

 

[fuzzylogix]

i have had good luck with a soil, sand, moss, leaf litter mixture.

where do you usually get all that from?

Our Lowes has cypress mulch, and I mix it with peat moss that I get from our local feed stores. For my larger tegus i've also mixed in play sand to the mulch/moss mixture as well.

 

[jwyo]

"dirt" and sand from back yard, some cheap peat moss from home depot or menards, leaf litter from backyard as well. You can bake it to remove any unwanted hitchhikers. So the mixture is basically free.

 

[Skeetzy]

Not everyone has a backyard to dig up in. That's my problem lol. I'm going with a coconut fiber and cypress mulch mix. Just going to buy 2 bags of the cypress from Agway for the $22. Then buy the coco coir bricks at the local hydroponics. Believe they should be about $9-10 a big brick. Spending about $65-70 in total. May go with a more cypress mixture though.

 

[Diablo]

"dirt" and sand from back yard, some cheap peat moss from home depot or menards, leaf litter from backyard as well. You can bake it to remove any unwanted hitchhikers. So the mixture is basically free.

Only problem with baking it is finding something to put in it and big enough to fit in the oven without having to do it 100 times. Do you bake the dirt and sand too or just the leaf litter?

 

[Neeko]

My local Lowes and home depot couldn't say with guarantee What else was in blend. I didn't want to chance it. I got coco fiber on the discount from a friend who has a commercial account with a supply, store.