Poll For Substrate!!!!!

[snakepunk]

Broken glass and rusty nails

I was using broken glass and rusty nails but it's too hard to clean. Now I just use newspaper.

 

[Malaika]

Aspen!

I like aspen bedding so far(I've had Isha for two days...). It's cheap, it's safe, and Isha loves it!

 

[Droptines]

I just switched to Forest Floor(cypress mulch).LOVE THE LOOK :crazy02:

 

[snakewispera snr]

We use the "expandable", its cheap , easy to use, great for diggers or making false burrows,and it's good on the humidity side of things.Easy to keep clean /remove.
and it looks great with a bit of aspen or cypress sorta sprinkled artistically can't fault it

 

[Joejr14]

considering I'm not a breeder. I use crushed english walnut shells with repti calci sand mixed in. a 75/25 ratio

Gosh, that's a horrible combo!

I'm personally in the process of trying to switch everything over from shredded aspen to sani-chips.

 

[Spork]

Aspen is overrated. Cypess for the win!

 

[Animal_gal]

I've always used the forest bed. It's soft, easy to clean, fun to dig in, and digestable (lol).

I don't like having to wait for it to expand, however. Well, it expands pretty well but it takes a pretty long time to dry out, and being paranoid as I am, I'll let it sit for a few days because I dont want smeagol to crawl around in it and get sick. Even though it's pretty warm over here right now, sometimes the nights are still a little cold.

And then I end up putting it in his cage still pretty wet anyway.

Oh well--reading through some of the posts here, maybe I should try something else, but forsest bed has yet to fail me (and my snake) so I suppose I'll stick with it for now.

 

[brownsfan222]

i used to use the coconut bark but my iguana got mites and using repti-bark my snakes got mites so all i use now is newspaper

 

[Seakat]

I line the bottom of the tank with newspaper and cover it with Carefresh. I love that stuff!!! :bird:

 

[cyclone]

shreded cocunut fibre you know "the just add water stuff". I use it for all my snakes, and I've used everything. So hands down the best.

 

[jaxom1957]

None of the above. I prefer a 50/50 mixture of aspen shavings and kiln-dried pine shavings. The pine offers a softer texture while the aspen provides better structure for tunneling.

 

[Stephen29]

I thought sani chips might be on here ?

Hey Jaxom1957,

Do you feed your animals directly in their cages while their on this bedding?
If so, do you provide any sort of tray for them to eat the mouse off of ?

I like Sani chips, but really worry about the animals ingesting some of this material, even though a tray may be present sometimes, they can still drag it off the tray. Although I know out in nature there is "no one " to place a nice little tray for the Snakes to eat their meals off of. And I guess they do ok. So maybe I'm being paranoud ?

 

[pinkmus]

I use another small tub without subtrate placed in the viv

 

[exodus5139]

I've used a few substrates but aspen is by far the best. It's pretty cheap, easy to spot clean, and my snake loves to burrow around in it.

 

[Droptines]

Cypress mulch looks great !!!!

 

[RossiButtersnowCorn]

I will never go with anything but Aspen for my corn she loves to burrow! Aspen keeps the caves very well.

I use Cypress for my Rainbow but at the moment he has little room to burrow, I think Jungle bed from T-rex is next on the list.

 

[Droptines]

I have the cypress 3" to 4" deep,,so she has a lot of tunnels.A few run along the glass :grin01:

 

[sneakers]

Id Say Aspens The Best Substrate Its What I Use

 

[Hydroxy]

I use Aspen for my little hatchling.
He seems only too happy on it, and I usually have to dig into it to find him as he likes to burrow.
I think he's secretly an earthworm posing as a corn.
Aspen is also cheap and easy on the eyes(pretty to look at).

 

[dragar]

one vote for aspen.... iv just had to talk my local pet shop out of using normal tree bark that you get in playgrounds and childrens parks.... silly pet shop man he now uses aspen too , i put a vote for aspen for him too if i could.