Question about aspen

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Originally Posted by That_One_New_Guy

Well if you have a BP you should switch from aspen to either cypress or use what i do and mix damp coconut husk and reptibark. it gets your humidity up and looks better than aspen in my opinion. I use aspen for my king snake and i havent seen anything wrong with him since i bought "brand name" aspen bedding.

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I used to use cypress but since switching to tubs it was too humid, like 90% all the time. Now with aspen it stays at 55-60%. But I might just add more ventilation because I like the look and the less mess of cypress.

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Originally Posted by littlemisskat

It was honestly an accident. Lol it didn't go through the first time, then double posted. And I have no clue how to remove a post once it's posted ):

I'm sorry for the confusion.

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No need to apologise !

These things happen .

I'm guilty if the occasionally duplicate thread if I'm panicking but I put them in different sections to get extra exposure ...

I have the finely shredded stuff for reptiles and the courser stuff for my rats. I'm actually in the process of changing out my snakes to paper towels, since it's pretty easy to miss things when spot cleaning the aspen and the fine shredded kind is pretty expensive, even when bought at reptile shows (I can get a bag for 20 dollars that I want to say is 2 cubic feet really tightly compressed? It's about the same size as the biggest bag of aspen they sell at petsmart). I don't really like how the small animal grade sometimes has huge chunks of unshredded wood in it and I don't think I would personally use it for my snakes. It's all good for the rats, since I think they actually chew on the mentioned wood chunks.

Other substrates I have used in the past include repti bark, which I don't like for my snakes (I had my first one on it for a bit, but the bark looks a lot like tiny snake poops and is pretty abrasive otherwise), and eco earth for some animals at my parents house (good for frogs and animals that need really high humidity, but a pain in the butt to clean out of a glass tank).