Aspen bedding

How do you know if a ball python pees in aspen bedding? Which bedding is easier to spot clean?

you can smell it

take a quick taste(j/k), but usually there is a little white blob( the urate )

its kinda hard to find white things in aspen bedding

look for yellowing of spots in the bedding? I mean i use cypress so it stands out well.

aspen is yellow so yea its harder

yea i know.. but when you look down on it, it will stand out. but the white blob stands out more it will be obviously the thing that isnt bedding.

do they pee in their hide?

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Originally Posted by Maddumpling

do they pee in their hide?

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YES! they most definitely do pee in there hides! Well... at least mine did last night and it isnt a pleasant smell :colbert:

I use aspen bedding, and i find that it is easy to spot a pee spot even if there is not a urate there as drynaspen is light yellow and a pee stain Will be a light Brown colour. Its very easy to spot and Will stand out wHen you see it.

And A's some one has suggested you Will definately smell the pee spot! Enjoy and good luck pee spotting. :D

I'll take a look under his hides when I take him out to handle. You can normally spot it pretty easily. Aspen's white(ish), but you can tell the discrepancies.

It's easy to spot when it's still wet - the aspen gets darker brown in color instead of yellowish. But, that spot gets yellowish again when it dries, so it would be harder.

I usually go by the urates and take a section of the aspen around the urate with it. Then I change out the bedding every week - sometimes 2 weeks if the beach gets too irresistible and we decide to chuck our chores.