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Newspaper substrate

hartsock

hartsock

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So what's the deal with this? I have heard different ones say they use shredded newspaper as the substrate in their feeder bins and it works great. My question is does it reallY? Not that I don't believe people, but won't it stink worse with just the newspaper?

It would be great if it did work, because it would be cheap and easy substrate for me. I went to get some kiln dried bedding and the local supply store only has one kind other than straigt cedar,and once I got it home and opened the bag, it smells like it may have cedar in it too. (it doesnt list the contents). I looked at the pellets for pellet stoves and the ones that they carry on it warn against using it for human (??) or animal usaged. So, before I even test it out, what's everyone's opinion.
 
I cant see a problem using newspaper, my only concern would be the ink when wet. Im not sure if this would effect the snake at all?:confused:
 
The ink on newsprint is vegatable base and won't hurt you if you eat it.

I haven't used newspaper for mice but I have used shreaded paper from my office. It worked just fine. I asked my girls to make sure there was no foriegn matter or garbage in the shreader I didn't have any problem with it, and I raised a lot of mice. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that it was messy. It seems to get everywhere and is hard to sweep up.
 
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