Redwood Mulch?

worldeater · Respected Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 595

hi, as i live in north cali we have an abundance of redwood trees and thus lots of cheap bags of redwood mulch.

do you think redwood contains phenols? would it irritate my tegu? it's really fluffy, redwood shred's kinda weird. it's soft. but kinda dusty. how do you think it'd put up with the constant misting?

if redwood don't work i'm giving up on mulch and going with a decomposed granite soil mix as i can't find any good mulch around here.

cypress is like an alien word around here.

i have wood mites they're driving me crazy! i don't like inedible bugs in my tanks!!
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angelrose · Moderator Joined: Jan 05, 2008 Posts: 1474

there are alot of redwood trees in cali., I know. that's a whole lot of misting going on ...lol.

do you have any of these:
- Eucalyptus Mulch - repells bugs such as ticks
- Orchid Bark
- Hemlock Mulch

you don't want anything that 'clumps' and dries hard.

worldeater · Respected Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 595

nope, just looked around, for em. i can't find an appropriate mulch for the life of me, plus redwoods are evergreens so i'm not going to risk it.

what we do have locally is sandy loamy clay type loam which is what i'm going to have to use. i've set up an apptment with a quarry so i can figure out a good mix.

i'm giving up on mulch.
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1.0.0 Australian Water Dragon "Spyro"
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0.1.0 White Dwarf Hamster "MiMi"
1.1.0 Black&Albino Kingsnakes "Pearl & Hannibal"

angelrose · Moderator Joined: Jan 05, 2008 Posts: 1474

cypress mulch is getting a little hard to get here as well. I used to get a huge bag of it at home depot and lately they have been shipping it down to the flooded areas

so now I use cypress but mix it with about 1/3 organic top soil and that works well for burrowing. perhaps you can mix it up.

worldeater · Respected Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 595

true, i think i can still get the super expensive zoo med stuff from the pet stores, and just add a bit to the loam for burrow stability and surface area for humidity.
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1.0.0 Australian Water Dragon "Spyro"
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0.1.0 White Dwarf Hamster "MiMi"
1.1.0 Black&Albino Kingsnakes "Pearl & Hannibal"

txrepgirl · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

angelrose.Have you ever tried to use eucalyptus mulch ? I just changed to that kind of mulch.I got some 100 % natural organic brown mulch.I like it.So I went back to get some more and they were out of the brown one.They just had the black and red one.I wasn't to sure if I should use the red one but since it said that it is 100 % natural I thought I get it.But it looks like that I have to change it because Leonidas is all red now

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worldeater · Respected Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 595

LOL good to know!
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0.1.0 White Dwarf Hamster "MiMi"
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