Rice Hulls As A Substrait?

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Rice Hulls As A Substrait?

Postby Lucifer_Spades » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:07 am

I was browsing through past posts, (BTW you guys were much more leniant about OT threads back then) and I came across a reference to rice hulls being used as a bedding material. Thoughts?
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Postby wastedindustry » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:12 am

I can see why they'd be useful as a substrate purely from the point of view that they're a natural, small substrate which is also easily digested (I assume) so won't cause problems with impaction etc.

On the other hand I can't imagine that they'd be very absorbent? Also I'm not sure how easy it'd be to get hold of...

Obviously I've not tried it myself though, so it'd be interesting to know if it's suitable.

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Postby Lucifer_Spades » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:31 am

Availability not an issue any feed store would have it. Absorbacy was said to be excelent thats why i'm wondering.
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Postby wastedindustry » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:33 am

Could be useful then :)

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Postby NomadOfTheHills » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:54 pm

Why not try it and report back?
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Postby Lucifer_Spades » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:02 pm

I'm hoping someone else tried it I'm too in love with Quigs to risk anything if no one else has tried it though I might.
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Postby Bird_Brain » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:38 pm

Im not really familiar with rice hulls, but I would worry most about mold if the water were to spill or something.
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Postby Leigh » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:46 am

My skink is a skink not a guenea pig :rofl: :rofl:
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Postby Lucifer_Spades » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:54 am

Leigh wrote:My skink is a skink not a guenea pig :rofl: :rofl:


Exactly, I'm sure there's not much danger but usually better safe than sorry,
they are soft, absorbant, Cheap, easily available I'm just tryin to find someone with experiance with it so I can be sure theres no major downsides
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