Exo Terra Plantation Soil, 8 Qt (8.8 L) - 100% Natural Terrarium Substrate | Increases Humidity, Stimulates Digging & Burrowing | Ideal for Natural Terrarium Setups & Live Plants

This stuff is an excellent exfoliated, if you value your manicure I’d wear gloves. Be sure to allow time to soak in water to unbrickify and then dry, depending on your needs

So I read a lot of the reviews, and I just want to say. Yes it took a while to absorb the water...but if you use hot water and the amount it says to (3liters) and actually wait the 30+ minutes...it does expand and it's pretty decent quality. Holds humidity EXTREMELY well. So if you re using it for something that requires good humidity this is your go to for sure.

Has kept my isopods alive and happy for the past two months :)

Do not but soil from this seller. Bought five of these and none of them soaked up any water even after a few days submerged. Was only able to get a refund for 1 out of the defective 5. Waste of money

This is good soil and there is a lot of it per brick. It really expands. It's good to store, compact and dry. Overall useful.Though, it is pretty difficult to break up. I spent over an hour breaking it up, so I imagine you could get around that by soaking it for several hours before messing with it. Still, the brick is pretty dense. It worked for my purposes but it takes some work to prepare.

I bought this for a snail terrarium and watched lots of videos on online of people using this product and I think overall my experience was a lot different. All the videos I watched people just put it in water and it started to expand...and that’s exactly what the instructions say to do, just put the block in water and in 30 minutes it will expand. But my block did not expand within 30 minutes so I started to poke at it and then an hour passed and nothing. So I literally had to shred the block with scissors and continuously pour water directly onto it and here I am 2 hours in with just about 1/3 of the block turned into usable soil. The soil is just fine but the instructions made it seem so simple... so just something to note, plan for more than 30 minutes

High quality!

Wish I read the reviews, I also ran into an issue of one of the two blocks I used so far not expanding. I had to pry it apart with a fork and honestly? Even then it still didn't really absorb any moisture.