Best substrate for breeding tubs?

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Originally Posted by loonunit

OMG. And you know how breeding pairs are: you put them in the nice clean tub and someone IMMEDIATELY take a giant dump. Every. Time.

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My feelings exactly, except, all of my animals like to take a giant poop right after I change them, not just my breeding pairs hahaha. It's almost as if it is intentional sometimes. Jerks. hahahaha

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Originally Posted by loonunit

I like the recyclable aspect! But my husband has a thing about Bad Smells in the house. :P It's the main reason I'm not allowed to have a cat, he can't stand kitty litter smell. And I bet that used carpet bucket is RIPE.

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I just keep it in a $2.50 home depot 5 gallon bucket with lid. The lid keeps the smell in. Then at the end of the week when it is all full and ready to wash I clean out my newt tank with the bucket which consequently cleans out the bucket. A little bleach and walla; clean and smell free. P.S. Don't leave the lid off the bucket though:P

I have been using paper towels for substrate for the few months that I've had BP's. Seems to work good so far but they are still pretty young and do not make much of a mess.

Paper, for all the tubs. I have it cut to the size and hanging from a nail on the wall. So, i put my gloves, take out the snake, take out the poop and the paper, desinfect with spray, dry it out, put on the new paper and back the snake. It´s like making a bigmac. Done in a minute.

Newspaper. For the same reasons Jerry mentioned^.

Unprinted newspaper. I buy 2000 ft. Rolls of the stuff.

Thanks for the responses, everyone.

I use newspaper in my tubs.

We use corrugated Kraft paper. Clean and safe for the BP during mating and when they do their business it absorbs really well.

I use paper towels for my all my tubs except in the winter time I use a ashen cypress mix to hello with the lack of humidity via the heaters but breeding tubs get paper towels