Grams per Litre with Long-Fiber Sphagnum: A Mixing Recipe for Terrestrial Salamander Tubs

My red-backed salamander colony lives in 30 litre plastic tubs, and for years I bought compressed sphagnum, soaked it, squeezed it, and watched it swing from swamp to crunchy within four days. The fix was mechanical, not mystical: hydrating polymer into the moss so the moisture lives in a gel phase …