freaking ants!

[greghall]

well my cypress was full of ants ! must have gotton in there before winter.

[2kdime]

I HATE ants!!

That sucks man

[bsash]

That has happened to me a lot with the aspen and cypress substrate when I would buy from pet stores, then I switched to eco-earth. I don't have any ball pythons right now, but, just saying. Maybe you could try www.bigappleherp.com or www.reptiledirect.com if you don't want to switch substrate. Either one of those are you best bet, they have very nice products.

[SNIKTTIME]

well my cypress was full of ants ! must have gotton in there before winter.

Maybe you can boil the mulch you have and wring it out and let dry. That will kill any kind of insect and egg. It will take a little work though.

[mpkeelee]

wont PAM kill off any of those lil nasties in there? try treating the substrate and see what happens

[jjmitchell]

I am currently using and enjoying shredded paper.... purchased a good shredder, shred all the junk mail and random crap my kids get sent home from school, cheap works well, and abundant.. saved me lots of money and works well.... and no bugs

[BOWSER11788]

wow, i never thought of that, eh i have a shredder as well

[saber2th]

I am currently using and enjoying shredded paper.... purchased a good shredder, shred all the junk mail and random crap my kids get sent home from school, cheap works well, and abundant.. saved me lots of money and works well.... and no bugs

How long have you been using this? And how is it working out?

[greghall]

going to try news paper again til summer when I can dry out my cypress & the little nasties cant hibernate in my cypress

[jjmitchell]

How long have you been using this? And how is it working out?

I have only been using this for about 6-8 months.... I got the idea from another person on this site who is responsible for my addiction. She has been using shredded paper for several years. The idea makes good sense the bedding marketed as snow...is just paper... Any who it works good, snakes seem to like it, its incredibly cheap, absorbs pee or the ocasional dumped water bowl. As far as clean up, I spot clean as needed and change bedding when bedding is soaked or has that smell..... You accumulate way more shredded paper than you think, I keep a 50 gallon trash can I purchased just for this and it is constantly full....