Substrates

[Kurt]

The brick is ground coconut shell, you can use it with all your amphibians or you could use sphagnum moss. ZooMed (I think) sells ground coconut shell loose, dried, and bagged, so you can try that. Or you can mix the two substrates together. The sphagnum moss helps to keepsthe coconut shell from being tracked all over the place.

[priya]

the brick i was using was call tropical terrain, and it is just like potting soil ans is really messy, i will look into the ground coconut. is it really fine? and if it is wont it just end up getting stuck to my whites again? i got told not to use spagmum moss as there is a danger of them eating it with the crickets and getting impacted.

[Kurt]

Tropical terrain is coconut shell. I have found mixing it with sphagnum cuts back on the amount of ground coconut shell that sticks to your frog. I also think mixing the two together make it less likely that your frog will swallow the sphagnum.

I have seen some of my amphibians eat sphagnum and they're ok. As long as its small amounts, they should be ok. I think that the threat of accidental ingestion of sphagnum is greatly exaggerated.

[SludgeMunkey]

For terrestrials and semi-terrestrials like my B. orientalis, I use a mix of coir, soil, and moss as the substrate. I then cover this over with sheet moss. For my B. nebulifer I use a 70/30 mix of coir to soil with a handful of sand thrown.

[1beataway]

What is coir?