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CareFresh???

Lore

Lore

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Does anyone use CareFresh for their snakes?

http://www.qualitycage.com/bedding.html

I was thinking of picking it up for my mice, and was wondering how it would do with the snakes then I'd just buy a gigantor bag that I could use for all my animals.

Thanks for any info you have on it. :cheers:
 
Lore,

I've tried it once many moons ago. I didn't like it at all. One it didn't do a thing for the snake's colours, two it was messing if water got accidently spilt. And despite the name of the product, it didn't seem to neutalize any smells at all :(
 
I don't like Carefresh for snakes. I still have most of a bag I tried out last year. It really seems to dry out the enclosure. I tried it with an adult corn that was a little sneezy/snorty. He obviously didn't have an R.I., so I was worried that he may have been sensitive to aspen and/or aspen dust. This snake had always shed perfectly. The Carefresh ended up being dusty enough itself, and the snake's next two sheds were bad. He also developed some minor "wrinkling" on his belly, and it seemed like his skin was drier in general. I switched him back to aspen, and he went back to perfect sheds, and the wrinkles went away. He still snorts though. :rolleyes:
 
I've actually used carefresh for my past couple of changes of bedding just because it's been hard to find the big bags of aspen around here lately. I hadn't noticed it being dusty or any drier than the aspen, and have had no shed problems. I do not like the fact it is harder to spot the snake poops in it than it is in aspen, but since most of my adults are brumating that doesn't really matter right now. My hatchlings do love to get it in the water bowl, and I have to be careful they don't end up with empty bowls since it acts like a big sponge.
 
ICK... sounds horrible. I'm glad I asked, I'll stick with Aspen for the snakes, and even from that review I don't think I'll even use it for my mice.

Just trying to find a bedding for the mice that doesnt stink after just 1 day :rolleyes:
 
This is going to sound a little strange, but I used the pelleted rabbit food for my rats. Worked really well, little smell and great absorbency. Really cheap to.
 
I use paper towel with a little bit of carefresh on-top that my babies love to burry under! but only a handfull per cage!
 
Lore said:
Just trying to find a bedding for the mice that doesnt stink after just 1 day :rolleyes:
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Then you certainly do NOT want to use it for mice. I tried it for mice once, and it stunk within hours of changing the cage. Carefresh is the WORST bedding I've tried for mice.

To control mouse odor, go with some kind of pelleted bedding like Aspen supreme, alfalfa pellets, Yesterdays News cat litter (much cheaper than the small animal version and the same product, get the unscented) or my favorite, "Woody Pet", if you can find it. I'm using Woody Pet for the mice currently and they don't stink for a week or so, and even then it's much reduced.
 
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