Have Question About Substrate!!!

How's it going everybody im new to the site. my bp is about 3 feet i bought him/her from a freind and he has been using calci sand as the bedding is this ok i have been looking over the site and have not found anybody that uses this. which does not worry me but i need to know just in case it may be harming my bp i hope to hear from some of you very soon thanks.

i would use aspen bedding, newspaper or cage liner (paper). oh welcome to the site!


vaughn

From what i hear Calci-Sand is bad news for a number of reasons.

I would use something like newspaper of Reptile Carpet that is simple. Newspaper is either super cheap or free in most cases and Reptile Carpet can be thrown in the wash with some bleach and used again and again

I use Reptile Carpet and i think its the best !!

I used to use newspaper but Reptile Carpet looks so much nicer. :)

i use coco fibre and repti bark
better than newspaper for the snake

Btw, don't use pine or cedar. Both will produce oils that are harmful to the snake. I keep my ball on the expandable cocanut coir stuff, although he was on aspen when I started him out. I ended up ditching the aspen due to humidity issues. I keep the rest of my snakes on newspaper.

Umm how exactly is it better for the snake ???

I dont really get what your saying.

would you rather sleep on the floor or an nice comfy bed??
im just saying that a snake would probably prefer a more natural substrate.
get it now?

No, not really, i dont think they really care.

Wouldent you rather sleep on a nice clean carpet than in the dirt or in a pile of wood chips constantly poking you ??

Plus Reptile carpet and newspaper tend to be cleaner becuase you can see the whole mess the snake leaves behind when it poos of pees and you can see the whole wet spot, not like dirt where all thats left is the little white ball and all of that other yucky bacteria is hidden and soaked up into the substrate.

i think a ball python would rather sleep in the dirt with wood chips poking at it. but hey newspaper works good for you and coco fibre works good for me and something else works good for someone else. so lets all just get along.

i use newspaper. it quick and easy to clean and it's also easy to get 24 hours aday. and best of all cheap.