Sand for Substrate?

[spankyg]

Hi Sarah, good to see another Aussie here

Sand is (as Ginger & Lee said) a no...

Soil on the other hand, (from experience) isn't the best, but can be all right as long as it is kept reasonably firm/moist, has been treated to ensure no parasites or other nasties are hiding inside it and mustn’t be chemically treated... still, I wouldn’t recommend dirt/soil..
I believe the best thing to use in your position would be paper towels, (preferably a brand with no odor/no chemicals). For me, paper towels work great for a temporary substrate, and although it makes it easy to clean, you might have to do it more often than not… doesn’t look too great… but it does the job… you feel me?

Try and find some coco husk that stuff is the bomb.

Goodluck

[Sarah]

Thanks! OK.. coco husk sounds like the way to go.

[gtr319]

Hi Sarah and welcome to the forum,

Sand is a no for substrate, I currently have soil and sheet moss. Works well for me, but the cons of having sheet moss is that they get mess up too easily and they are not the cheapest thing that you find on the market ($6 here in California), so you can do some more research in regard to this.

http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/...-question.html

I opened a topic a while back in regards to this matter, I hope you find this useful