Which substrate for glass enclosures

My hoggy has eco-earth because its great for burrowing.

My ball has cypress mulch.

My green tree used a mixture of repti-bark and eco-earth in its glass cage and still does in its pvc cage.

I personally use Eco Earth Coconut fiber because it looks nice and it really helps with the humidity issues a glass enclosure often entails.

All depends on outside environment...

Wheb I was living in Florida during Humi summers Aspen was just fine... but with dryer winter approaching i was switching to reptibark... then I liked i way better visually so i stick with that..

When i moved to NYC... Summer are hot and Humid here... so repribark is fine... even aspen is fine but i like look of reptibark better...

During wintertime because of heaters running I'm glad That I discovered Eco Earth... is great for spot cleaning... and hold humidity just awesome... but Still i spray my glass exo-terras every 5 days or so...

I'm in Oregon. I use aspen and our humidity here is already dead on. :)

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Aspen is all I have ever used.

I have heard good things about cypress.

Harry

My boa which is in a glass enclosure is on Eco earth. My balls are in a PVC enclosure and are on eco as well, stuff just does an amazing job retaining humidity. With my boa I probably have to re-hydrate the substrate once a week to keep humidity up. The PVC enclosure I have only re-hydrated during sheds.


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I've been using aspen for my girls, but I've only had them for about 6m. :D Think I'm still a noob.

I have used them all and prefer the Eco Earth bricks. I try to find it on sale and buy it in bulk. It is awesome for spot cleaning too. My second choice would be Cypress over Aspen.

We changed to a paper-based substrate a little while back. They sell these huge brown paper bags for leaf litter, so I've been putting those to good use. I think we originally used cypress, but don't quote me on that. We stopped using it because in addition to making a mess of the carpets and dealing with the fact that the cats liked to roll around in it if it spilled, Capsicle managed to get a mouthful of it and couldn't spit it out. (I had to have a friend hold him very gently so I could try and get it out of his mouth without losing a finger, safe to say it was complete and total mayhem.)

Cap CAN be a bit of a twerp sometimes, so I don't know if it's as big of a problem for other owners or if Cap just likes to act like he has oatmeal for a brain.

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