What kind of substrate do you prefer?

I've used bark, paper, fir chips (in now), and aspen.
I only have 3 snakes so expense isn't a real issue. My favorite out of all of them that I've used is bark.
I can wash it with boiling water to sterilized it before I put it in, it holds moisture without being wet. And I've never had a problem with mold.

Paper towels. They are cheap, you dont have to worry about loose substrate getting in their mouth during feeding, and it makes cleaning so much easier and you always know when its dirty!

I use unprinted newspaper in my snake's tub. I love it! It is so easy to tell where he peed and defecated. It cleans up real quick and is quite cheap too. I was using cypress mulch but I could not tell where he peed and I didn't want him laying in his own waste.

i use repti-bark..i like the way it looks and i kinda like the smell of it...weird yes?

I use paper towels or unprinted newspaper for any young or new snakes so I can monitor what they "put out" and look for mites a lot easier. Then after they've been monitored to my satisfaction, I put them on coco husk because they air in my home (we have an old house with a rather out dated heating/cooling system) is EXTREMELY dry (like 25% to 30%) so I need all the humidity I can get with the substrate.

When I was using tank before i was using repti-bark because of humidity issues...
Just before I was switching to rack i posted similar Question with pool here on the forum LINK HERE and Heather Wong/LadyOhh pointed me to Sani-Chips.

Is an aspen type of bedding but not in shredded form but i form off small chips... is way less dusty than regular aspen is great for spot cleaning and hold humidity better in my opinion and of course looks better that newspaper...

I'm using it for over year now and I see only pros till now..

I highly recommend it for everybody who is not happy with newspaper and looking for something better that regular aspen :gj::gj::gj:

I'm partial to paper towels myself. Easy to keep everything sanitary for the snakes health

I use Aspen. I don't have a problem with it.

I used to use aspen, but when the cost was getting to me... I switched it up to paper towels/plain towels, and have been using that ever since. It makes it easy because since my tank doesn't have a lot of fancy decorations it's simple to take what he's got out and clean on the spot.

We're currently using newspaper because it's so cheap, but I honestly miss my cypress mulch. :(