POTENTIAL DANGER: Substrate/Matting

[flybyferns]

Thank you for the warning.

When using a 'removable' substrate such as this it needs to be one in which can be completely replaced ( ie paper towel )
or laundered and completely disinfected after each use- both need to be changed frequently.

Of course, burrowing frogs or any clawed amphibian/reptile should not use this.

[Eridu Serpent]

Thank you for the warning.

When using a 'removable' substrate such as this it needs to be one in which can be completely replaced ( ie paper towel )
or laundered and completely disinfected after each use- both need to be changed frequently.

Of course, burrowing frogs or any clawed amphibian/reptile should not use this.

Which is another reason I chose the mat, it said it could be washed. I used it in the area where the bath is, not in the digging area.
She has her moss area and she and Goober the male sleep there, I used to use a half and half mix of eco and moss.
I also found that Goober would drag a lot of the eco soil into the water, for some reason he will only eat now if fed in the water,
so again I thought if I get rid of the eco soil it cuts the danger of ingesting it down.
The moss mat seemed a good idea to have around the water area.
What upset me was Exo Terras lack of care, they know it was a potential threat yet has not and will not remove it from the market.
They are just selling the old one still until stocks run out.
It is a sad state of affairs when a company as large as that does not care about its customers animals!

I had a huge list of things I was due to buy for two new four foot tanks, waterfalls, substrate, lighting, filters etc all Exo Terra...but now they can just
go to hell. I have gone to another on line store which sells Zoo Med and Lucky Reptile.
I vow never to buy another Exo Terra product again. I did get my money back from the store in the end but that was never the subject, I want Exo Terra to recall the mat so no other animals get hurt or die.
I shudder to think what Pickle would have done if I´d not heard her making a fuss, had I not been there she could severed her foot completely.
A smaller amphibian would definitely have suffered a lot more!

SHAME on Exo Terra!

[Mr Bee]

Has anyone got any experience with the new improved version of the mat, is it safer?

[Eridu Serpent]

Hardly anyone answered so I have no idea. As yet the new version has not reached us in Spain.
Several have told me the same happened to their frogs but they did nothing about it, I never saw anyone warning people.
So I thought that I would, that is what a forum is for...to help and share information.
I will NEVER buy another Exo Terra product after the way they re-acted, they simply did not care and the fact that they
knew of the potential danger and kept selling them only made it worse.
PLEASE Boycott this company until they do recall every single dangerous moss mat!