Most odor absorbent substrate

So my hubby has apparently developed some kind of super smelling abilty. Despite the snakes being housed in a separate room (spare bedroom) with the door always closed (keeps heat in, curious Scotties out) he complained last night that "those snakes freaking stink." I went and checked, and the male normal had urated in his hide, and that was it, I couldn't even smell it until I opened the tub. Every other tub was sparking clean because I am neurotic about clean tubs, they are checked daily and cleaned the moment I see anything marring the pristine white paper (it gives me an outlet for my OCD tendencies). So I guess I'm going to have to change substrates after all, since the reptizorb liners I'm currently using have zero odor absorbing properties (excellent for ease of cleaning though so I'm pretty bummed). Please advise me on your favorite substrate for keeping odors low. I also have a honeywell Air Genius 5 purifier with a VOC pre-filter running in there 24-7, but apparently this is not sufficient, so if you have a better idea for air filtration as well please let me know. Since he's nice enough to limit me only to "as many snakes fit in one room" I want to keep him happy about that number, because you can theoretically fit a lot of racks in a single room. :D

I use aspen and get very little smell. But I also clean it out every week.

Since you have the OCD itch, could consider doing an AM and PM check. Twice a day keeps the odor away.

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Originally Posted by John1982

Since you have the OCD itch, could consider doing an AM and PM check. Twice a day keeps the odor away.

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Lol, I do most of the time anyway. But I think he's aiming for the kind of non-smell level where someone coming into our place for the first time would be surprised we have 2 dogs, let alone a bunch of snakes and dozens of ASFs. I'm not even sure that's possible, but I'm going to give it my best try.

Since you keep the door closed I could see something setup right outside the room working well too. A little side table just outside with aroma candles, scented oils or some incense sitting on it could do the trick. Masking what little odor is getting under the door you probably wouldn't even need to burn anything. They also have those cinnamon brooms you can hang up on the wall, stuff like that.

Back when I used coconut husks I couldn't ever smell anything, but there are obvious downsides to it as well like molding easy and you need to freeze or bake it for possible mites. And even though aspen is winning, I've uses both and smelled less with coconut.

I bet nothing you use will make a difference...Just how some people are...They expect it should smell, so they smell ish that isn't really there...

My BP doesn't smell at all. :/ Granted he's only pooped twice since I've had him, but only one of those smelled. The urates don't smell at all. My cat liter box smells FAR worse. Maybe I'm just lucky thus far? With the snake, not the cat. Lol

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Get a flat boxed fan and stick a filter on the back of it. It can help to absorb a lot of the smells that may assault your hubby's nostrils.

Repti bark by zoomed cause its absorbent