UTH + ReptiCarpet = ?

ew...nobody told me about the chemicals issue with mulch...i got mine at lowes...i think. i didnt notice anything on it that said it was treated with anything so...maybe i got lucky.

Ya sounds like u did good for u cali sucks so many regs on stuff lol plus I cant get asfs I want them bad anyone wanna send me some lol

nope i got it at home depot...shoot! well i just contacted the company and asked if they use chemicals in the kind of mulch i bought, so i should hopefully be hearing back from them soon...
hopefully they tell me everything is good with their product.

Ok Ill grab some from the pet store when I get some more foodz for her. Which since its supposed to come an ice storm and even more snow will probably be in a few hours:D. Thanks alot guys. You are teh rulez!

I would definitely get rid of the carpet AND the tape. even if there is no adhesive exposed, your snake can eventually peel it up. You could have some serious issues is the tape gets stuck to your snake.

I went through and read the UTH thread and decided to tape the probe to the underside of the UTH. I also had just enough aspen shavings left over to give a good bedding so I went ahead and took the carpet out and put them in. I plan on changing to the cypress mulch when I clean her cage in a week or two. Thanks alot for the advice.

Repticarpet.........toss it in the trash. Unless you have like 3 of them to replaced after a #1 or #2 then wash and continue the cycle it's not really even worth it.

Cypress Mulch.......here is my take and a few others on cypress
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-Cypress-mulch

As for the tape you can do what you want. Do you run risk with it? Sure do. Have people had success with using the tape for years? Sure have. If your inexperienced I wouldn't do it, once you get more comfortable and you choose to use tape, then the choice is yours. Personally I have tape in a few cages and it's all good, but I am tossing the accurites in general and for the few I am keeping using hot glue instead (With this risk there is no reward just a hurt snake)

mitsumike - i read some of your "reviews" on your cypress mulch experience...with the big chunks. i just take those out. so far, so good.
granted i havent tried anything else so i have no experience with anything else but it looks like this is working out for me. hope it works for you in the future too when you do decide to go back to it.