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Which wood would be good wood?

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wowfood

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Would like to know :p

Basically I have a branch for my smaller corn Kratos, he's pretty long now, about 30 inches I'd guess, but still a shoelace :p

Anyway, *cough* got a branch from the store I go to, most stable one I could find, but still not all that stable. What I wanted to do was buy a bit of flat wood, and stick the larger piece of wood to it. So it keeps its woody appearance above substrate, but has a nice flat bottom.

I remember pine is a nono, any others?
 
Check out cork bark. You can do anything you want with it. It is easy to reshape. It makes great hides too.
 
Cedar and pine are bad due to the oils and tannins/resins released from those woods. They can irritate the skin, with cedar being the worst. Aspen and many hardwoods are best for caging needs. Aspen or fir bark are excellent for substrate, as can be coco fiber (aka coco coir, forest bed, bed-a-beast, etc.). Hardwoods can be used for décor. A common wood used by some green tree python keepers is maple; I've used pecan. Apple, oak, and mopany (swahala) woods are options too. Additionally cork bark (cork is from the oak family Fagaceae, genus Quercus) is another given. Other woods might be useful too...manzanita, ghost wood, grape vine (molds very easily in high humidity), and other woods used in the dart frog community.
 
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