Petition to stop selling calci sand

[timbalan]

Check this out. Its a petition to rid calci sand from pet stores everywhere.

http://www.change.org/petitions/sho...-dragons-and-using-it-on-shop-bearded-dragons

 

[Dantte&m3]

Do you recommend to not use sand at all??

 

[diegothediggy]

For babies defo no sand but for older beardies its fine as long as temps r correct and u regularly change the sand and clean the viv. I have 2 beardies and when i got Diego he was around 5months and he came with sand. I found quite a few problems with it mysepf altho Diego loved it. Wen he wud run rnd the viv he wud get sand in his water n salad bowls. Its quite hard to make sire u pik every bit of salad out or it will go stale. Also i found it gettin in the doors of the.viv and makin a horrible noice a real pain plus wen i bathe d Diego there was always sand in tue bath tho id think id brushed it all off him. So i changed my sub to tile. It was cheep easy to clean n keeps the temps up great. But i have left 1/4 of the viv under the baskin light sand. Just coz they do like to have a gud dig in the sand and also Diego likes to sleep in it. But sand is fine as long as everything else is perfect. If ur temps eva get low id say defo not coz if the beardie not warm enough n he eat sum sand it wnt digest n can cause impactation.

 

[MisterD83]

luckily for my set up I have a screen lid, so no worries about awful sounds / cinching closing things back up.

I'd happily sign that petition as I agree with it, but all the herp and general pet stores in my area sell it (not necessarily push the stuff) for any desert reptile. :/

 

[Josh]

Signed the petition! Thanks for posting it!

 

[Noella]

I signed.

 

[will_him_is]

I have put small tuperware containers of sand at night for them to sleep. They seem to like it to sleep in it. I am using 16x16 ceramic tiles for the floor. Is the main problem from them eating the sand when they eat? or just licking it all day? I know ingestion is he problem, but just sleeping in the sand is that bad?

 

[timbalan]

As long as they just sleep in the sand it should be ok. But calci sand just plain isnt good. As pasty puts it its like cat litter it clumps together when wet. The only sand one should use is washed and sifted childrens play sand.

 

[will_him_is]

Thats what I am using. Playground sand