Need help finding vermiculite

I can always find the really fine vermiculite in small bags. I was wondering if anyone knew of a place that has course vermiculite or any vermiculite in bulk? I live in Cincinnati Ohio and if there was a place close that would be great otherwise does anyone ship it for a good price?

Reptile Basics has 64 qt bags for 49.99

Best stuff ever ... :)

http://www.homedepot.com/p/THERMOROC...3#.UVnIvjeRfiE

I only use small bags since I'm only incubating one (hopefully two) clutches this season. I plan on using a mixture of these two: http://www.homedepot.com/p/THERMOROC...3#.UVnihVfkRmh and http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/2021876...x#.UVnigFfkRmg

I went crazy trying to find the big vermiculite and perlite and found some on line at a gardening supply webpage. And now that I'm getting close to needing it I think I might go substrata less. You might consider looking into this method.

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 het blurry, 0.1 spider, 1.1 norm. 0.1 dinker,

Local feed stores

A bag like this will cost you around $20/$25

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...miculite-1.jpg

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Originally Posted by ironpython

I went crazy trying to find the big vermiculite and perlite and found some on line at a gardening supply webpage. And now that I'm getting close to needing it I think I might go substrata less. You might consider looking into this method.

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Many of us do substrateless, but most of us still also use substrate, confused yet? lol.

The perlite or vermiculite is used under light diffuser pieces to keep the water from sloshing on the eggs.
So the term substrateless only means the eggs aren't sitting in the substrate :gj:

Since vermiculite is pretty much on its way out being a source of asbestos exposure does anyone have vermiculite substitutes they have found to work well?

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Many of us do substrateless, but most of us still also use substrate, confused yet? lol.

The perlite or vermiculite is used under light diffuser pieces to keep the water from sloshing on the eggs.
So the term substrateless only means the eggs aren't sitting in the substrate :gj:

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Oh now I am confused, I could swear I saw where some folks use perlite with a lot more water than the conventional ratio and some even with only water with diffuser. It seems there are numerous methods.

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 het blurry, 0.1 spider, 1.1 norm. 0.1 dinker,

I keep reading about that too! So This year I am going to try perlite with a light crate. We'll see how It works.