So I was chatting with the guy who runs my local herp store and I asked him which he preferred, vermiculite or perlite. His response shocked me because he said neither because THEY ARE BOTH TOXIC!!! Seriously? What the heck? He breeds turtles and his boss breeds over 300 clutches of balls per year and only uses sphagnum/orchid moss. He went on to say that his boss did a bunch of research on the toxins in vermiculite and perlite causing issues with baby reptiles. What does everyone think? I had never heard of using moss as an incubation material before this. I myself have only ever used perlite, but this season, home deopt's perlite was out of stock so I picked up vermiculite. We'll see how that goes when I get eggs in a week or so.

Have you heard of this before?

Have you had success incubating on sphagnum/orchid moss?

Thoughts?