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#1 Post by corbyeire »

Anyone know what the white stuff is they are selling their worms in?
its not polystyrene - mad sort of caked crumbs
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Rag? Vermiculite ?
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#3 Post by corbyeire »

maybe it is vermiculite - but it was so uniformly white and the same sized grains
rag in it alright
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#4 Post by Etihad »

Might be stuff called pearlite. It is used in the same way as vermiculite as an insulator. i have used it in the past to keep rag in. It is pure white and smaller particles than vermiculite.
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#5 Post by Al and Jordan »

it's called perlite :wink:
http://perlite.net/
just do'nt spill a bag of it in the boot of the motor as it's a nightmare to hoover out :lol:

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