Beware of yellow/orange rocks.

If you’re like me and pick up interesting rocks all the time and then like to use them in your terrarium, be careful! After my four asbolus verrucosus inexplicably died, each about 4 weeks after I got them and there was no other possible reason for the deaths, I was ready to consider the rocks as the culprits. And I found they were radioactive! Carnotite in rocks creates the yellow to orange and it is radioactive. Pretty but NO!

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