Exo Terra Plantation Soil, 8 Qt (8.8 L) - 100% Natural Terrarium Substrate | Increases Humidity, Stimulates Digging & Burrowing | Ideal for Natural Terrarium Setups & Live Plants

This is good soil and there is a lot of it per brick. It really expands. It's good to store, compact and dry. Overall useful.Though, it is pretty difficult to break up. I spent over an hour breaking it up, so I imagine you could get around that by soaking it for several hours before messing with it. Still, the brick is pretty dense. It worked for my purposes but it takes some work to prepare.

High quality!

I use this more my Rats bioactive enclosure

Loves his new soil he is always digging .

Do not but soil from this seller. Bought five of these and none of them soaked up any water even after a few days submerged. Was only able to get a refund for 1 out of the defective 5. Waste of money

I bought this for a snail terrarium and watched lots of videos on online of people using this product and I think overall my experience was a lot different. All the videos I watched people just put it in water and it started to expand...and that’s exactly what the instructions say to do, just put the block in water and in 30 minutes it will expand. But my block did not expand within 30 minutes so I started to poke at it and then an hour passed and nothing. So I literally had to shred the block with scissors and continuously pour water directly onto it and here I am 2 hours in with just about 1/3 of the block turned into usable soil. The soil is just fine but the instructions made it seem so simple... so just something to note, plan for more than 30 minutes

Great for the bearded dragon aquarium

My Brazilian Rainbow Boa loves this. When she was little, she especially loved tunneling down into it. I recommend a good 3or 4 inches of depth at least or more if tunneling. It really holds moisture and helps to keep the humidity high enough for her. It’s easily transferable, so be mindful when taking things out of the tank, as it will get on you and the floor. But it’s great value as you can scoop out waste and it stay pretty clean. If it gets too dry you can always revive it with water. I mix some with Forest Floor for my Python and although he doesn’t need high humidity, he does need some & this works very well. I’ve tried other brands and gotten springtails each time. (Makes me itchy just remembering) so I’m not doing that again. This is clean and inexpensive and lasts and lasts. Very happy.