Is paper towels easier than aspen substrate?

Frankly I didn't mind using aspen substrate when Snickers was younger but now she is well over 2 years old and is still growing rapidly.(2 months ago she weighed roughly 580 grams and now she weighs roughly 740 grams)

Snickers seems to still poop as often as she always did but she just poos larger amounts at once. Her urates are becoming more difficult to clean though. There is always the large ones that are easy to spot but there is also tiny ones that blend in with the aspen substrate that are difficult to spot.

Snickers has always had her entire tank cleaned once a month but the older/bigger she gets we sometimes find her tank to smell even after spot cleaning out the urates a few days after the big cleaning.

We already have to use paper towels in Snickers tank anyway when she eats(we cover her aspen substrate with paper towels before offering her F/T prey with a grabber because we don't want her to accidentally swallow substrate and become impacted)

Is paper towels easier?

I find paper towels easier. When a cage gets messed up just remove old towels, spray down with disenfectant, wipe up, and put new towels in. You have to clean the cage more often but it is simpler.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I find paper towels easier. When a cage gets messed up just remove old towels, spray down with disenfectant, wipe up, and put new towels in. You have to clean the cage more often but it is simpler.

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This ^ X2. Only takes a moment to scoop out dirty towels, spray down, wipe, and replace towels. Definately keeps things super clean for your snake, because there isn't a chance of anything left unseen/cleaned, plus tub is getting disenfected frequently.

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I use newpaper, which is really similar to papertowels, and i find it to be the easiest. Mainly for the reasons stated above^.

I use newspaper. I don't miss vacuuming up aspen every day lol

For babies, I use paper towels. When they get bigger, I use Kraft Bogus paper. However, if I had only a few snakes, I'd use newspaper. Cleaning is much easier with paper towels and news paper.

I use paper towels over newspaper because when they pee on newspaper the ink bleeds onto their belly sometimes.

Also, paper cuts! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

im changing all my aspin and using bogus paper just ordered my roll it makes it easier for me paper towels and newspaper is much easier and less expensive

I'm a fan of using a paper as a substrate but the paper towel gets all crunched up with the bigger snakes. Newspaper is probably the way to go.

I've used newspaper, aspen and paper towels. I prefer newspaper for my adults and juvies and paper towels for the babes.