Preferred substrate

Hi all,
I am curious about everybody's substrate preferences for keeping balls. I currently use aspen bedding, which is great because snakes can easily into the substrate. I think the downside is that it doesn't retain humidity very well. What are your thoughts?
Cheers, m

Blue scott shop towels,

i use cypress, hold humidity pretty good, doesn't mold nearly as easily as aspen. Not as easy to dig in, but I have snakes that still do. Worst oftener being the albino that is always dirty looking because she digs around so much.

In my rack aspen. Never ever mist, no hotspot, anything, just a waterbowl and humidity is right at 68-73%. Higher if I open the tub too fast lol.

In my big enclosures I use pine and fir shavings, and in QT it's unprinted paper towels.


I like my Dubstep to go Wop Wop Wop Wop

I use Eco-Earth. Really helps with the humidity. :)

Ground coconut husk. Holds humidity well and the snakes love to dig around in the soft, loose substrate. QT gets paper towels.

This type of year cypress, as the ambient humidity in my house is under 10%. During the warmer months I use newspaper.

I use aspen... Easy to spot clean, holds humidity and temps well.

I use a mix of pine and cedar.




JUST KIDDING! I would never ever use those...

I use coconut husk, and it's awesome. I would like to get some aspen though. Seems good.

Depending on the enclosure corrugated wrap or Eco Earth.


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Originally Posted by Wheatley

I use a mix of pine and cedar.




JUST KIDDING! I would never ever use those...

I use coconut husk, and it's awesome. I would like to get some aspen though. Seems good.

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Why not pine ever?


I like my Dubstep to go Wop Wop Wop Wop

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Originally Posted by Expensive hobby

Why not pine ever?

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Not unless you were certain it's kiln dried and trust the manufacturer.

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Originally Posted by Badgemash

Not unless you were certain it's kiln dried and trust the manufacturer.

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There we go. Someone else that understands that pine and cedar are not the same wood lol.


I like my Dubstep to go Wop Wop Wop Wop

All my balls are on papertowels.

Mine is paper towel, newspaper, and aspen.

Kiln dried pine is fine. And most wood beddings that are processed are kiln dried any way.

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Thank you all for the input. Quite obviously, there are many ways to keep the BP successfully. I will definitely start to experiment and see what works best for me, especially given some recent shedding problems with one snake.
Cheers, m

Since I live in South California, we don't get any humidity. Coco husk gives my terrarium the perfect humidity.

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