Aspen V Newspaper

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

I'm currently using unprinted newspaper for my adults and paper towels for my babies.

I recently made the switch from aspen based sani-chips for a couple of reasons, but most of all because with paper, when it's clean it's clean!

:D

-adam

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Just curious Adam, is there a benefit to using unprinted newspaper over printed, or just your preference? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Just curious Adam, is there a benefit to using unprinted newspaper over printed, or just your preference? Thanks!

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Cause there's nothing worse than adult albino ball pythons with newspaper ink smeared all over them ... LOL ... j/k

Actually, with a couple of hundred cages to cover in paper each week, it's not practical to walk into 7-Eleven and buy all of their newspapers out. It's much easier to order bulk unprinted paper and have it delivered and I can get it sized to fit my cages.

If I just had a couple of snakes, I'd use the sunday paper.

-adam

Well I'd go with the Sunday paper too Adam but I'm worried I'd have to put up with Malachi screaming for the sports page every two freakin' minutes! :P


~~Jo~~

Could be worse, you could have my Princess. She stopped dumping her water bowl since I got her a heavier bowl, but she's still "little miss priss". No other python I've had has managed to soil paper 4 days (once 3 hours after I'd just put down fresh paper) in a row with urates, dumped waterbowl, or poo.

She's a spoiled brat.

I found that the aspen based sani chips was easier to use for my colubrid when I had one. The newspaper just doesn't soak up enough urates for my adults it seems. I keep my Sarawak short tail on paper towels, but he's got the smallest container at the moment. When I had cresties they were on paper towels as well (easy for them to spit out if they got a mouthful while nabbing bugs).

Paper towels are cleaner and a lot more absorbant, but they're not free like the newspaper is. As for the sani chips, I have a giant bag that will last me for a while.

I've got one like that too. Miss Brann messes up her lovely tub every night...waves of aspen...hides pushed hither and yon...Acc-Rite ripped down...the occasional flipped water dish! None of the other females do this as much as she does, so I guess Brann just enjoys being a busy chicka at night LOL.


~~Jo~~

Well, Jo, maybe she's trying to order a pizza or something. You know, since ya'll NEVER feed the girl enough... *giggle*

But anywho, I use aspen bedding. Don't usually put newspaper under that unless I remember to in Amani's tub, but in Dillinger's tank, I put newspaper under the aspen so he won't come in contact with the glass bottom(yes, his tank is a little ghetto rigged-So!, LoL)

Ordering pizza! So that's where my cell phone is! Well as long as she's not running up daytime minutes and calling back to the jungle to see how Cousin Hiss is I guess she can just keep the darn thing LOL!


~~Jo~~