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Originally Posted by Trent
Why are you baking it??
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To remove excess water faster.
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Originally Posted by USMCgunner11
You buy 3 bricks for $9.99 at the store (or at least that's my local price) or you can buy one giant bag of the dry equivalent for $9.99. Hydrating it and then baking it is justa waste of time. I would look into a different option for substrate if it involved that much effort.
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Around here a 7 liter block cost $6 while a 7 liter bag cost $20. These blocks are compressed under a lot of pressure then dehydrated. Which means you can't just break the block up which is compressed down to one liter and get your 7 liters of ground cover. It has to be re-hydrated before use. It absorbs a ton of water and takes forever to dry out enough to place in a viv. Hence why I bake it.