this may the best substrate for your snake

yeah everyone this stuff eco earth, which comes in compressed bricks,gurantees at least high humidity but i believe all around this is the cleanest. anyone agree. voice your opinion.

Nope. I think paper is the cleanest.

-adam

Agree with Adam. Also, I've never used the EcoEarth, but I imagine it's quite a pain to clean each month.

It looks nice, but there's no way you can find all the urine soiled bedding to remove it.

News paper has to be the cheapest and the easiest to clean.

I use eco-earth for my gopher, and paper for my bp.....and I totally agree with the others that paper is MUCH easier to keep clean and KNOW it's clean. Eco-earth is nice, though, if you don't mind the extra effort it takes. It makes for a very pretty viv.

I've tried all substates and I would have to say newspaper makes cleaning day so much easier and faster. I could see using it if you just had one snake, but not for alot of us who have many.

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Nope. I think paper is the cleanest.

-adam

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I agree,i have the newspaper delivered everyday so i dont have to spend any extra money for the substrate for my snakes :cool:

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 ;)

I only use eco earth for my gecko..

I used to use aspen for my snakes but I got sick of it.
Now I use paper towels for all the snakes.

Before starting new threads on "which substrate do you think is the best", please try searching and reading some older and longer threads about it...=)

We have quite a few with all opinions and options voiced and discussed.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

I agree,i have the newspaper delivered everyday so i dont have to spend any extra money for the substrate for my snakes :cool:

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When I had a smaller collection, I used to do the same ... now I'm going through a couple thousand sheets of paper a week, the paperboy would kill me! ;)

Besides, albinos, hypos, and pieds look nasty covered in newspaper ink ... So I order unprinted paper pre-cut to fit my boxes ... it's perfect. :D

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

When I had a smaller collection, I used to do the same ... now I'm going through a couple thousand sheets of paper a week, the paperboy would kill me! ;)

Besides, albinos, hypos, and pieds look nasty covered in newspaper ink ... So I order unprinted paper pre-cut to fit my boxes ... it's perfect. :D

-adam

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

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

When I had a smaller collection, I used to do the same ... now I'm going through a couple thousand sheets of paper a week, the paperboy would kill me! ;)

Besides, albinos, hypos, and pieds look nasty covered in newspaper ink ... So I order unprinted paper pre-cut to fit my boxes ... it's perfect. :D

-adam

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Could say you have a rare albino ink smear BP. :rolleyes:

My personal preference is the indented kraft paper. Price isn't an issue right now with my 1, lone BP. :P

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

i prefer paper towel and newspapers

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

When I had a smaller collection, I used to do the same ... now I'm going through a couple thousand sheets of paper a week, the paperboy would kill me! ;)

Besides, albinos, hypos, and pieds look nasty covered in newspaper ink ... So I order unprinted paper pre-cut to fit my boxes ... it's perfect. :D

-adam

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I've never had the ink come off on my snakes, even when it gets wet. Although I imagine you would have to subscribe to nearly every paper in the country to keep up with your needs. :)

I was told that the brick stuff could cause problems in the vent .... clogs it or something

I use Kraft paper for the adlts/subadults and newspaper for the babies.

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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.