What is the best substrate for ball pythons?

Thank you

I offered my ball python a thawed mice and she decided not to eat eat. What do I do with the mice. Do I throw it away? Or refreeze it?

You give it to your Blood Python. LOL!!!

Well that kinda depends how long it was thawed. I PERSONALLY do not refreeze a feeder after it has been thawed for more than an hour. If you do refreeze a feeder, I will only do it once. The second refusal gets the feeder thrown out.

Once you have more snakes it is not that big of a deal because you will usually always have one to take the scraps. For me that is my big Blood girl which I found out today is now just over 6ft.

The best one is the one that works for your animal(s), depends on the animal, the type of enclosure you use and overall humidity, it can also depends on the season.

For example I use Aspen for my animals except for females during breeding season, when they are paired I use newspaper when they ovulated and until they lay I use mulch.

" It also makes it really had to sanitize a glass tank as it tends to stick to the sides and gets in the corners."


... and to the water bowls bottom, and sometimes the snake, and the sink and etc. Been considering the same question about substrate. If I were a snake I wouldn't want to lay on ole hard bark either. My snake seems to prefer the softer side hide with the eco--earth. ( I have bark on the warm side because I was using the UTH but now I am using day lights instead. ) The eco is softer but so clingy. I think I will use the idea here of paper towel or maybe green or brown liner from Zilla. Does anyone like the liners here one this website? If not why not?

I use shredded aspen I get a huge bag for 22 bucks http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06...f8d0fb583b.jpg

I go to my local newspaper printing place and they give me a big roll of unprinted paper for free

I use white paper towels except my female thats hopefully gonna lay soon she gets aspen

I usually use a combination of Eco-earth and jungle or forest bedding. As long as it doesn't have chunks or sticks! I've had to check Eco-earth, too, ever since I found glass pieces in one of the bricks I'd re-hydrated. It was like beach glass, smooth-edged, but still...


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Yea I like how before my 2 females laid they pushed all the aspen to the sides that's how I know my eggs are very close