Redoing substrate

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Redoing substrate

Post by Tazz9040 » Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:25 pm

Hello again I'm probably being a pain ...sorry went out n bought was needed for play sand and eco earth coconut compressed fiber 3 brick pack my 3 hermies was buried under the calcium sand dug them out carefully rinsed them off we dechlorinated water n boy was the big one (edited by moderator) he was clicking up a fit had to get the old sand off so now I'm rebuilding the tank and will let y'all know how it goes...crossing fingers... :crabbigsmile:

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Post by aussieJJDude » Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:15 pm

Good luck with the upgrade. Hopefully theres some pics of the completed project?

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Post by ciaraalston » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:01 am

Good luck!!! :cheer:
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Post by fandt94 » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:28 am

Best of luck! Post some pictures when done
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Re: Redoing substrate

Post by Tazz9040 » Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:33 am

Well the tank had a remake over I have 5 inches of sand mixed with coconut fiber humidity perfect heat perfect I have a heat pad on back wall with aluminum foil shiny side facing in I just have the basics in tank for right now put hermies in they were active for about a hr then they started going off in different directions the one small one dug down in back corner the other small one in coconut hut n the medium one under drift wood buried a little ...woke up last night looked into tank and seen one of the small ones in the salt water bowl good sign for me ...now in all that said how do I post pics lololol

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Re: Redoing substrate

Post by Hermiesguardian » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:20 am

Tazz9040 wrote:Well the tank had a remake over I have 5 inches of sand mixed with coconut fiber humidity perfect heat perfect I have a heat pad on back wall with aluminum foil shiny side facing in I just have the basics in tank for right now put hermies in they were active for about a hr then they started going off in different directions the one small one dug down in back corner the other small one in coconut hut n the medium one under drift wood buried a little ...woke up last night looked into tank and seen one of the small ones in the salt water bowl good sign for me ...now in all that said how do I post pics lololol
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Post by aussieJJDude » Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:05 pm

Or if its not to style, a image sharing account like flickr also works.

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