substrate not being eaten and helps with moisture

Hi. i had put the forest floor in my ig's cage (srry had to try it to see if it would work) he doesn't eat it and he doesn't dig in it either! its awesome and is helping heat up the tank a little from the bottom and really helps out with the humidity. some of you who have iguanas should try this stuff out it is safe they don't eat it (well at least mine doesn't) and it makes keeping the humidity up much easier.

if he did end up eating it and liking it then i would take it out right away but i have had it in there for about 5 days and he hasn't eaten any of it yet! it is really great stuff. i will still watch out for him eating it though but so far ti is great stuff and looks good too! as long as you soak it for about 1 hour it stops expanding and doesn't expand or shrink so it is fine to use! just be careful on how much you take out of the package cause i thought i took to little and i took toomuch so anyone who tries this stuff watch out for that. lol.

I do not keep a ig but how do you know he hasn´t eaten any? have you watched him/her for the whoñe five days?

i haven't watched him for a whole five days but when i first started out with the substrate i only put a little bit of it in the tank and measured how much i had put in there then i had mesured it afterwards and it was the same. and when i first put it in there i watched him walk on it and it didn't bother him and he didn't eat it he licked it once and then was no longer interested. i watched him in there for about 3 hours.

Just because you havent seen him eat it doesnt mean anything. You cant watch him 24 hrs a day. I thought the same thing when I had Bearded Dragons on crushed walnut shell...never seen them eat it,,,but they did! I would still remove it.

I know that when an iguana has something new in his environment, he tongue flicks everything so he could have ingested plenty of that stuff without you knowing it. He is a baby so a small amount is not safe to ingest. PLease consider removing that stuff....it could mean hundreds if not thousands of dollars in vet bills for surgery.....

Are you willing to pay for that surgery when he need the impaction removed? If so by all means continue to use this substrate. But I think it would be in the best interest of your iggy if you would just reconsider this.

Originally Posted by IGGYOWNER

some of you who have iguanas should try this stuff out it is safe they don't eat it (well at least mine doesn't) and it makes keeping the humidity up much easier.

Yeah....no.

Please research the two types of impactions caused by particulate substrates, and the many horror stories found on the net by innocent people who believed the same thing you do right now.

Particulate substrates are dangerous and should never be used for iguanas.

Chris your ig could already have swallowed enough of that stuff, without your knowledge, to cause him problems. And there is no way you could know by measuring it whether or not any has been ingested. It isn't like they eat it as food. It is more that they tongue flick it and it gets ingested.
You are claiming to know more in a few days than people who have studied iguanas for years!
And not just people here on this site.
Please reconsider.
For the health of your iguana.

Just use newspaper. 1 2 3 clean up...