Substrates reptibark vs aspen

Well unless the paper towel smells like a rat or mouse, I wouldn't imagine them trying to eat it. Now if you put a rat on top of the paper towel, then the paper towel might get wrapped in the rat and get eaten. To them it looks like just another cage item. I put mine on top of their RBI hides under their CHEs. But if you are worried, then go for what you feel. My sunglow is only 24" but she is playing ambush predator now and sits under the aspen with just her nose and eyes sticking out looking out the front of the cage. I bet she is waiting for a mouse lol and my beeper is a pet rock who only leaves her hide for water, rat or to poop and my big BCI girl is too big to even pay attention to a folded up wet paper towel lol.

I use clean white paper.

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Well unless the paper towel smells like a rat or mouse, I wouldn't imagine them trying to eat it. Now if you put a rat on top of the paper towel, then the paper towel might get wrapped in the rat and get eaten. To them it looks like just another cage item. I put mine on top of their RBI hides under their CHEs. But if you are worried, then go for what you feel. My sunglow is only 24" but she is playing ambush predator now and sits under the aspen with just her nose and eyes sticking out looking out the front of the cage. I bet she is waiting for a mouse lol and my beeper is a pet rock who only leaves her hide for water, rat or to poop and my big BCI girl is too big to even pay attention to a folded up wet paper towel lol.

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The ambush sunglow sounds adorable!


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Lol she is a blast. I used to see her climbing around as I made her a PVC jungle gym for her cage but like I said, recently she has become ninja snake and I only see new tunnels she makes during the night in the aspen. I have to look around the little aspen mounds for her nose and eyes poking out somewhere close to them lol. Then when I dig her out, she looks around like "OMG I've been discovered!!" :P Definitely got some personality, cant wait for a few years to see how she matures.

You need more humidity, move the water bowl back towards the heat tape area. You need less, move it back up front.

I use reptile bark in all my enclosures without any issue. It's my favorite substrate. I like the way it looks, it smells, and it doesn't get all over everything. All my snakes are fed in their enclosures and non had had any trouble with it.

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You can feed in a tub with substrate. Mine get mouthfuls of pine shavings fairly regularly and everyone is healthy. They evolved to eat on jungle floors which are loaded with undigestible garbage, a little bit of wood shavings or coco husk won't hurt them.

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Aren't pine and cedar toxic to snakes....?

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Aren't pine and cedar toxic to snakes....?

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Cedar is not good, pine is okay.

I use Repti-Bark for all of my enclosures without issue. It's great for controlling humidity.

Reptibark is good stuff. It holds crazy humidity without even spraying in a glass tank.