Question for those who use wood shavings
Hello. I don't know if its because its late or I'm a little slow but I have a question. Right now I am using paper towels as substrate. It's not a big deal I guess. Doesn't look nice or anything. It does its job. Whenever I look on threads I see people using aspen or other kinds of wood and it looks much nicer and I've heard it's easier to keep clean. I'm looking to maybe make the switch to aspen.
My question is about heat. With the paper towels, I just point my temp gun at the towel and it says 90 and I'm like happy days! With aspen the temp would be different because the aspen is thicker than paper towel. So do I adjust the temperature up to compensate for the thickness? Or do I leave it where it is because the bottom of the bin will still be 90 like it was with the paper towel and the snake will "nest" in the aspen and get closer to the heat tape? I hope that makes sense.
Also if you could give me some pros and cons of using wood as opposed to paper towels, that would be awesome! Thanks guys/gals
Re: Question for those who use wood shavings
I like aspen shavings. They absorb lots of fluids(good for swimmer snakes) The wide curl shavings over the shredded sticks. But, the last bag I got of it came with wood mites. Oh and how they love the grape vine branches. I know they dont bug the snakes but they are buggin me. I may have to throw out the entire bag, bake all my branches, and put them on paper towels. So theres my pros and cons.:weirdface
Re: Question for those who use wood shavings
My balls are on paper towels, pro- ease of cleaning! My boas are on aspen. And they will burrow or shove aside the aspen and get right to the bottom. Aspen looks nice, but is a bigger pain to clean.
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Question for those who use wood shavings
I don't like the idea of spot cleaning personally so i use newspaper.