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24-Jan-07, 08:05 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Eltham, Victoria | | | Crushed marble as substrate?
i know that alot of people wory about using gravel or sand with some of their animals because of possible compaction. i was wondering why alot of people didn't use crushed marble? you can get nice white sand grain size crushed marble quite easily. also if say a lizard ate it it would disolve in its stomach as marble is simply a form of calcium carbonate.
just a thought,
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24-Jan-07, 08:09 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Newcastle | | | | I thought it was impaction. |
24-Jan-07, 08:12 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Eltham, Victoria | | | my bad impaction  |
24-Jan-07, 08:53 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Albury Age/Gender: 31  | | | | I'd say it might be possible. However, I also thought that crushed marble, apart from being highly abrasive and sharp if crushed incorrectly may slice or cause abrasions to herps. In particulate grain form, it may still wedge and damage delicate tissues if wedged into the cloaca. And also, with calcium carbonate, when in large quantities and is exposed to acids (that including stomach acids in a small space) tends to fizz causing abdominal distension (maybe lead to possible gastrointestinal upsets and trauma if continued to swallow regularly).
JMO and somebody please correct me if I am wrong
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24-Jan-07, 11:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Gold Coast | | | | I have never heard of using Crushed marble. But the one thing i have found is with fine sands, and i think crushed marble would be the same, is that they tend to soak alot of moisture from my pythons faeces and urine and it really gets smelly because it is almost impossible to clean. I have found and use a crushed walnut shell which works great. Its not too think or thin and it is fine if the python swallows them. Best substrate i have ever used. Only problem is it can be hard to find.
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