10 tips for being GREEN and saving money

[UncleChester]

#1 savings for me is reusing other peoples old junk they were going to throw away anyway. From glass to build viv's, window/door trim for frames, chunks of closed cell foam for backgrounds, old scratched aquariums, to metal grating material, if someone is throwing it away and I can think of a use for it...

#2 savings for me is to buy bulk, and usually not from pet stores. I could get 1kg of LECA from a pet store for ~$12, or ~20kg for $30 including tax from the hydroponics store. Same goes for many other supplies, cement for backgrounds, huge bale of peat moss, vinyl tubes for water lines, landscape fabric for covering the LECA is sold in garden sized quantities at Home Depot, etc. It may cost more at the start, but in the long run it is much cheaper. Share the bulk costs with friends if you prefer, or hoard it for future builds like I do.

[1beataway]

When you find wood, for how long and at what temperature do you bake it?

1) My first suggestion is to breed mealworms. They're not a staple food, obviously, but they're so incredibly easy to breed that it doesn't make sense not to! I went a few months with no carrots in the tote, and I still got a few generations of mealies during that time period.

2) Use pothos. I can buy a plant from Wal-Mart for $2.75, and they grow so easily and so well. You can always grow more from cuttings, and if it starts to get to big for the tank, you just cut!

[Leefrogs]

1 hour at 200 degrees. Or until it sets on fire-- LOL.
Or if it's too big for the oven, or from a saltwater beach
You have to soak it in a tub with bleach water for 24 hours
And clean water for 24 hours to get bleach out.
Dry thoroghly

I love photos, a tough plant.

[clownonfire]

Ginger, just wanted to stop by and tell you that this was a great thread.

[Eric Walker]

My favorite green act is going to my local hospital. They have a closet they fill with medical shipping boxes that they stock up until they can find something to do with them. Instead of buying them from a shipping company i get ones that would otherwise most likely be thrown away. You can reuse them over and over if they are in good shape and they are medical grade. Plus they are FREE.

I hate Styrofoam but i feel so much better knowing I am refusing instead of making more garbage


for all you shippers out there I highly recomend checking with your local hospital. They are normally more than happy to help. Plus i have educated and created interest in frogs with plenty of hospital employies by explaining why I am there

[Leefrogs]

that's so awsome, I have a box of strofoam I've been holding onto for a year. It's the one thing that cannot be recycled. I think that's great advice!! Can't we use this for some of a drainage layer for frogs? I've read that somewhere, I don't know if it was "highly" recomended. Let's face it, it will never break down.

[Eric Walker]

Iv Read that before as well but i would rather just use rock. Plus Im not sure if that is the Type of foam they were talking about