this may the best substrate for your snake

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Originally Posted by Razaiel

I like newspaper and papertowels on top - my boa and rankins dragon loves burrowing between the sheets of paper towel in preference to using a hide. I get my newspaper free from the estate agents shops as here in the Uk they always have great containers full of their free papers and I swipe a handful :P

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Lol...your animals told you this?

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

Get em from the neighbors and save ever penny you can. Spend it on new blood!

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I don't think you have a good grasp on how many papers 2,000+ sheets a week is ... where I'm at, there aren't that many neighbors. :P

Don't worry about me and money, I'm pretty alright financially. ;)

-adam

Too much urate/fecal matter, in liquid form, drips down into it and remains after spot-cleaning. I only use newspaper b/c there is not any particle of waste matter left over after I clean the tub.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Too much urate/fecal matter, in liquid form, drips down into it and remains after spot-cleaning. I only use newspaper b/c there is not any particle of waste matter left over after I clean the tub.

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Perfect! :love:

-adam

But I must say, if I had the option, I would much rather use printless paper like Adam mentioned; I hate the ink stains that I have to scrub off the bottom of the tubs.

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Perfect! :love:

-adam

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You betcha! It is pretty gross, how in a 41-quart tub, the urine juice can stretch from one end of the tub to the other! I never knew there was so much liquid to their pee; it's not the fecal matter I am talking about, but the yellow yookee-ness.

Personally I find the coco fiber (which is what eco earth is) to be completely junk, I know quite a few years ago gardeners used the exact same stuff for getting plants to grow. I got some to try out on either a snake or a lizard and mixing that stuff is a pain and it gets stuck on everything. I personally wouldnt want any of that stuff in my snakes heat pits, nose, mouth, etc....

Thats why NEWSPAPER ROCKS!!!!!!!:rockon:

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Originally Posted by cris78

heres a trick for all of us who have multiple snakes that saves time and is very to clean and makes a more natural setting...i use reptibark or cypress..i know its a pain to clean..so i go in w/ a shop vac and suck out all the substrate in seconds then u just dump it out..its easy..and it can suck wet and dry...just my 2 cents ;)

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I would not use that reptibark in any reptile enclosures as i know several people whom have lost a reptile(snakes and lizards) when they accidently swallowed some of it.If everyone remembers a short time back i posted about a female crested gecko i had that died with a peice of that reptibark stuff in her mouth.The person i got her from used that stuff and it was a small peice that lodged in her throat:( .

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Originally Posted by WTHbbqSnake

Lol...your animals told you this?

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They talk to me all the time ;) No, it's just that they have some nice hides but they actually spend a lot of time (boa anyway) in the folds of the paper towel.