Best substrate?

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Originally Posted by TanyaL

We have used both bark and apsen and like both. Recently, we bought a huge bag of exo-terra bark. I just wish I knew the free offer that came with it...lots and lots of free mites and a free (through the roof) humidity-booster. A few hours after putting the bark in the tank, Foster was in her water dish with hundreds (no joke!) of dead mites and the humidity was in the 90% neighborhood! This may have been an isolated problem with this exo-terra bark but I know I won't buy it again! And, before I forget, PAM works wonders and is worth every penny!

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I got mites too .. and trying to find the source I was stumped. I used the barck for about a week before switching to aspen, and a couple weeks after he started sitting in his water bowl. I don't know where he got them, but I was super pissed and sad. I was and still am A new BP owner so I was scrambling as to what I had to do to get rid of them .. it sucked so bad.

Maybe the bark? Maybe the Vet? MAYBE ME!??!?! Whatever .. they are gone now *crosses fingers*

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Originally Posted by Drew87

I use paper i go to UHAUL get 180 pages of unprinted paper for 8$ lasts me a couple months very easy to clean ext. but its what you want to do. :gj:

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What do you mean you go to UHAUL? The moving company? Sorry if thats a dumb question.