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BTW, the amount of irritating oils in pine shavings is very minimal...but also, rodent cages have plenty of ventilation too, UN-like the enclosures that many of you
use for your snakes, where snakes are stuck breathing whatever substrate you put in. But either way, even with all the ventilation possible, cedar is very irritating
to the lungs of rodents & causes issues, some say toxic too...it's a no-go for BOTH rodents & snakes. (cedar is great for repelling moths in your closet though)
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Re: Pine Bedding
Awesome, thanks for the information. I might try this with my rats. I'm expanding from 2 male 4 female breeders to 4 male 16 females. Definitely need to save on the aspen bedding. I would use aspen for my snakes but I use Reptichip instead. Will be nice to cut costs on the rodent bedding.
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Re: Pine Bedding
So it's $6 at tractor supply for an 8 cu. ft bag of pine, $30 on amazon for an 8 cu ft. bag of Kaytee aspen. If Pine is safe i'm definitely switching over. TSC said their bags are either kiln-dried or rotary dried. I heard kiln-dried is safe how about Rotary dried? I am not calling their customer service everytime I buy a bag though, LOL (although they say you can and they track it)
1.1 Ivory Burmese Pythons 0.1 Albino Granite Burmese Python
1.0 Orange Glow Retic 0.1 White Albino Retic 0.1 Purple Tiger Retic
1.0 Anaconda Hognose 1.0 Hognose DBL Het Snow
0.0.1 Red Tail Boa
1.0 Albino Blitz BP
0.1 Pastel Het Pied BP
1.0 Pastel Leopard BP
0.1 Pastel Vanilla BP
0.1 Super Phantom BP
0.1 Spinner Enchi BP
0.1 Albino Kingsnake
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Not exactly sure what 'rotary dried' is but assume it's turned & air dried, whereas kiln-dried is heat added. Either should be ok...I'd imagine rotary-dried
is cheaper for them, a kiln is an oven & requires energy, that's all. Though I suppose insects could survive rotary but not kiln...
Last edited by Bogertophis; 09-12-2018 at 10:44 AM.
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Re: Pine Bedding
EH. Yeah i'll try it. There's people here saying they've used it for years I suppose it should work.
1.1 Ivory Burmese Pythons 0.1 Albino Granite Burmese Python
1.0 Orange Glow Retic 0.1 White Albino Retic 0.1 Purple Tiger Retic
1.0 Anaconda Hognose 1.0 Hognose DBL Het Snow
0.0.1 Red Tail Boa
1.0 Albino Blitz BP
0.1 Pastel Het Pied BP
1.0 Pastel Leopard BP
0.1 Pastel Vanilla BP
0.1 Super Phantom BP
0.1 Spinner Enchi BP
0.1 Albino Kingsnake
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