Premium Millipede Substrate - 0% COCO! - Bioactive Edible Substrate
Provide your millipedes and detritivores with a substrate engineered specifically for their survival.
Formulated with absolutely zero coconut fibres, our Premium Millipede Substrate is a highly specialized, nutrient-dense living soil. By uniting a mix of premium topsoil, humus, mushroom compost, decayed leaf litter, white rotten wood, and hardwood bark, it creates the ultimate digestible habitat floor required to successfully maintain and breed pet millipedes, isopods, and other terrestrial invertebrates.
This substrate should be used for isopods along with a thick layer of leaf litter and rotten wood, just check the moisture level and add more water if needed.
This substrate contains NO unnecessary fillers like coco coir which offer no nutritional value to inhabitants, and can potentially impact the millipedes digestive system. You can either use this substrate by itself or combine with other suitable substrates to boost the nutritional value and support the bioactive cycle within the set-up!
We have a saying here at EntoScapes that ‘substrate=life’, meaning your millipedes health is directly linked to the quality of its substrate. We use this substrate for our own millipedes, isopods, and roach species, and all have thrived and bred successfully. We believe in transparency when it comes to what is in our substrates, and encourage hobbyists to avoid products that do not tell you what’s inside. We are proud to be able to share this substrate with others and hope your critters love it as much as ours do!
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Premium Graded Topsoil: A clean, sterilized British topsoil base that anchors the habitat, retains uniform moisture, and provides vital trace earth minerals as well as an anchor support for live tropical roots.
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Organic Deep Forest Humus: Highly broken-down organic material packed with beneficial soil microbes that mirror the deepest layers of wild woodland earth.
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Mushroom Compost: A deeply nutritious compost addition that provides a slow-release boost of organic nutrients to fuel micro-fauna activity.
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Decayed Hardwood Leaf Litter: Finely crushed, pre-rotted Oak and Beech leaves distributed throughout the soil to provide an immediate, accessible staple diet.
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Decayed White Rotten Wood: Soft, flaky fungal-rotted wood cellulose mixed deep into the matrix—the absolute favourite food and nesting material of all detritivores.
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Hardwood Bark Fragments: Small pieces of native bark that add critical micro-drainage channels and structural aeration, preventing the mix from compacting into dense mud.
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