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I went to petco the other day to buy some items with a friend who owns a dog and fishes. When I went to look at live feeder insects, I found some sphagnum moss in the reptile section. As I looked, there were different brands of it. Can I use any of these for my vft? Or should I get it elsewhere? The "New Zealand Sphagnum Moss" seems to greatly resemble the moss in the flytrap store.

New Zealand Sphagnum is considered to be about the best class of Sphagnum for CPs. Just check it for weeds and debris before you use it.

I personally use NZ Sphagnum. My only complaint is that it is usually loaded with tiny grass seeds. They sprout and you get hopeful that there's some exotic New Zealand Bladderwort that hitch-hiked along and it turns out to be nothing but dumb old !@#$%^&*()OP(I*U&Y^ grass.

Good growing,
Mike

It's good quality LFS, but it's ludicrously expensive for how much you get due to being a pet product. You'd be much better off buying a larger package on eBay. Just search for Spagmoss.

spagmoss/besgrow you can get 10L and I think the larger size is 40L packages the 10L brick I bought two months go I think I paid around $7PPD for

anywhere from there up to about $10 seemed normal to me at the time looking around.

They actually sell 80L, 240L, and even 1200L packages of Spagmoss too. The more you buy, the better the deal is. It just depends on how much you'll use.

nimbulan wrote:They actually sell 80L, 240L, and even 1200L packages of Spagmoss too. The more you buy, the better the deal is. It just depends on how much you'll use.

that rules, I don't suspect I'll be anywhere near that level anytime soon though!!