HELP!!! Where do you get peat moss from? And what is it exactly?

yu can get from most pet shops and some gardening centres stock it

You need to be clear what you want. Sphagnum moss is the basis of sphagnum peat and is the result of partial anaerobic decay of sphagnum moss in a swamp. Peat can be derived from any plant material but frequently is from sphagnum moss. You can get dried sphagnum moss and sphagnum peat from your local nursery but they are not the same thing. What do you wish to use it for?

I use it in my frog tank it it a really good overlay substrate to go on gravel in frog tanks mine love it as long as you keep it moist the dried stuff just needs to be wetted you must be thinking of spagnum moss

been told I need it as a laying substrate to breed crickets. All I was told was peat moss hence trying to find out more about it

I think (just a guess) that the crickets eat the peat moss as 65% of the worlds true incects (crickets, beetles, cockroaches anything with six legs that can't fly) eat broken down/waste material just a thought don't murder me if I am wrong

can`t fly??? more research needed snakey?

LOL no this is not for them to eat. From what I have read it is for them to lay their eggs in. If you have other suggestions as to what can be used for egg laying material for crickets I wouls happily hear it.

any relation to Kate ? :roll:

can`t fly??? more research needed snakey?

Pigs cant fly, im sure they would eat it

i think i remeber people using sawdust or vercumulite in plastic drinking cups for breeding insects may have seen that on this forum

Might have been for locusts

I have used vermiculite for both.

The rigid foam blocks used by florists