Do you ever feed directly on Loose Substrate

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Originally Posted by Argentra

:) Remember this one fact: Snakes digest rodent bones and fur. Do you really think a little piece of wood is going to affect them much?? I would say, only if it's really sharp and gets stuck somewhere, or if they take in a whole mouthful of it.

Always use aspen bedding, always feed on it with no issues. Once, one of my BPs got a piece stuck in their mouth, but they worked it out on their own before I could even open the cage door. :)

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True however people don't mention that the bones are inside soft mouse or rat exterior. I feed my girl on her eco earth because she eats better in her home and it's just coconut shavings.

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i always feed on shredded aspen, have never had any issues with it. always figured the aspen we get is clean in the wild they eat who knows what along with their prey they have noone running around putting down a buffer between them and the dirty ground and they seem to do ok.

I dont feed her with any substrate around, but thats only becasue when I feed her is when I clean out her home. I put her in a seperate big old bin and dump a feeder in there. By the time shes done eating her tank is clean. :)

I feed all of my snakes loose substrate.

I don't want to take a risk feeding them rodents because I'm worried they will choke. Loose substrate is an excellent source of trace minerals and is high in fiber.

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Originally Posted by Skiploder

I feed all of my snakes loose substrate.

I don't want to take a risk feeding them rodents because I'm worried they will choke. Loose substrate is an excellent source of trace minerals and is high in fiber.

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Uhm, what?! LOL....

My dragons feed on newspaper and now that I have a BP he feeds in a separate enclosure that I put him in. I'm a paranoid person as it is so I can't leave them in any sort of loose substrate especially after what happened with my chameleon a few years ago :(... But there are different circumstances I suppose.

I had soil imported from the African Savannah. Kidding, cypress mulch and eco earth with some sphagnum moss from drug out from the hides. I've seen a couple of mouthfuls of eco earth go down with a rat but no visible ill effects so far.

I feed mine on their bedding, newspaper lol. The boas are on reptibark and coco husk, both have no issues eating directly on the bedding.


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (No Name Yet)

Mine is picky and won't eat wet rats... (F/t) so the substrate doesn't really stick to the rats

I have fine (kiln dried) pine chips, they are small, and I feed in-enclosure.
I feed live though, so the rat isn't exactly dragging in heaps of substrate with it.

If you feed appropriate size meals you don't usually have to worry about substrate. I feed FT on ASPEN and I have never had a problem.