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CareFresh as bedding?
- Thread starter BobbyHill
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Hypancistrus
New member
I personally think that CareFresh is a poor bedding for most things.
It was reccomended to me for my hedgehog and chinchilla, over aspen. My mother also used it for her cavy. I have found that when wet, it crumbles, and the mess created then sticks to toes and gets into fur and feet. It is also, to me, incredibly dusty, and I wouldn't want my snakes with their rather sensitive respiratory systems digging in it.
It makes sense that a pet store employee would reccomend it, of course-- it's $20 for the largest bag of carefresh, which isn't all that large, and $13 or cheaper for the largest bag of aspen, which will last almost forever.
Personally, I'd change to aspen.
It was reccomended to me for my hedgehog and chinchilla, over aspen. My mother also used it for her cavy. I have found that when wet, it crumbles, and the mess created then sticks to toes and gets into fur and feet. It is also, to me, incredibly dusty, and I wouldn't want my snakes with their rather sensitive respiratory systems digging in it.
It makes sense that a pet store employee would reccomend it, of course-- it's $20 for the largest bag of carefresh, which isn't all that large, and $13 or cheaper for the largest bag of aspen, which will last almost forever.
Personally, I'd change to aspen.
tommiegunnz
New member
Just thought I'd kick in my two cents, being a pet store manager I actually don't like Carefresh for most animals and tell my employees to steer people towards Aspen. Carefresh is bleached and dyed, maybe I'm just a bit too protective of my animals at home and at work but I don't like that combination if its used alot, used sparingly it might be ok but I still prefer Aspen personally.
whippet
Tara
I used it for my large boa once when the store here was out of all but pine or carefresh and he had dumped his waterbowl. I only used it for about a week...and it was Eh. Clumped up, was dusty, and just did not have that fresh smell aspen has. So I scooped it out and got the aspen right away. Worked okay for an emergency though and was better than pine.