countryside accents Cypress mulch from lowes

is it any good ? it says organic . i put it in one of my tanks . havent put a snake in it yet . needed to boost humidity a little and it seemed like my newspaper wasnt gonna do it no matter what . i use lights to heat my tanks " i was raised doing it and the guy who showed me my way into reptiles did too with 0 issues " it worked humidity is up to 55% and i didnt even dampen the mulch yet . question is . has anybody else used country side accents before ? its at lowes and is only $4.69 for 3 cubic feet . nice sized heavy bag it says organic on it so i figured it cant hurt them ,

Does it say 100% cypress or does the word "Blend" appear anywhere on the bag? If "blend" then it's at least 50% pine.

I can't find it online to better inform you. So my opinion is, if it is a "blend" than it may contain pine which is bad for the snakes. If it is not a blend and it is pure cypress and you can find out is has no pine in it, then you should be fine.

I personally pay $10.30 for 4.3 cubic feet of all natural Aspen.

"Countryside Accents" is trademarked by Grant County Mulch, Inc in WV. I would call them tomorrow and find out exactly what is in it before putting a snake on it.
http://gcmulch.com/index.php

i asked lowes representatives and they said its just cypress . the bag does say blend though . i already put my 2 adult BP's in it , i tried aspen but it did not hold humidity at all

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Originally Posted by juggalodudz

the bag does say blend though.

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There's your answer, it's not 100% cypress.

What's the point in asking for advice if you're going to ignore it and just put your snakes in it anyways. Your humidity problems all stem from your husbandry. Just because that's the way you did things in the past does not mean it's the way you should do things now. In the past I used to use heat rocks but that was 20 years ago and things have changed and improved since then. I have no problem maintaining my humidity and all I use is paper towels. The difference is I use a bin with an under the tank heater. If you use like to heat a tank you will have humidity problems. You'll have to keep missing that much regardless of what its made out of to maintain the moisture. When it says it's a blend it could be anything. Do yourself and your snakes a fever and get rid of that mulch and the light.

Well how do you suggest getting ambient temps up ? My house stays 75 degrees at the very most. Uth does not bump ambient temperature up. Just that one spot gets warm. I don't know about rack systems they are probably more effective in that case. And seems like a heater emitter would do the same as a bulb. .... Snakes are both in shed and humidity was at 16. Furnace is also drying up the house so that just made it worse. Humidity has been stable at 65_70% since yesterday. So it kind of does make a difference what you use. Lol

To up ambient temps you can either use a heater to heat the room or use a che/heat bulb but that option will further kill humidity.... And yes it does matter what you use... Its also very important to not use substrate that contains a wood know to cause health problems in ball pythons regardless how much its helping the humidity none of that matter if you make the poor things sick in the process

Also if you are using a screen topped cage you can cover majority of the top in aluminum foil and move the water bowl partly onto the uth to help create humidity in the tank.