Poll: Which substrate/bedding do you prefer?

This counts for all colubrids, pythons, and boas. I pretty much just listed the ones that they can all be on. Which do you prefer, and why do you prefer using it? I'm just looking for new substrate that I can use with all of my snakes (colubrids, pythons, and a boa) and is safe, as well as low maintenance (not a pain to spot clean and clean up).

none, i use paper towels, easier to clean and cheaper!

I use aspen over paper front half and the back half is just paper, easier to control the warm side temps with a consistent depth paper compared to bunched up substrate. Half and half is cheaper then full aspen....

I don't use any of the substrates that you put in the poll. I use newspaper for the subsrtate.

I went ahead and voted cypress mulch however, I only use it in my big display cage. Everything else, I use paper towels. I think this is probably one of the best substrates to use.

I've tried em all.

Yet I keep coming back to Kraft Paper.

I use newspaper...

I checked aspen cause that's what I use for my colubrids. BUT For my BPs I use brown paper for the adults and paper towel for the "kids" ;)

Newspaper, and occasionally paper towels for hatchlings. I tried aspen, and it was just a big pain in the butt.

I use newspaper

To me, it doesn't matter if it's a pain to completely clean out the entire enclosure. I love cleaning enclosures, and I have no idea why. It's just exciting for me and I find it fun to clean out no matter how dirty and smelly the cage gets.

I use this stuff called "forest floor", I believe it's made out of coconut shells that have been pureed and compacted. It's really awesome because you buy it dehydrated and add water to make it expand. My snake loves it and I like the fact that it literally lasts forever before you need to buy more. It also looks really good in a tank and isn't that bad to clean up, but then again, I normally just pick out the dirty sections instead of cleaning the entire tank.

It really all depends on the snake. My anaconda I use cypress mulch because it retains humidity really good, but it's not the cypress mulch that most people buy in a big bag from lowes or wal-mart. I use the T-Rex cypress mulch which is double milled so it's a lot finer, and it's easy to spot clean when necessary.

On the other hand my rufous beaked snake, I use aspen, though I don't like it because my snake sometimes smells like aspen, he likes to burrow, and to me from personal experience, burrowing snake with cypress mulch = bad outcome.

Oooops, wrong name, Forest Floor is one of the first ones I tried, I use "Zilla Coconut Husk Brick Reptile Bedding" currently.

I have tried paper towel, newspaper, aspen and cypress bedding. I like cypress the best out of all of them.

I also use a coco peat substrate (aka eco earth) it is really cheap depending on where it comes from the natural growing place sells bricks (1 foot by 1 foot by 2 foot) for 8 bucks. It expands a lot that does 7 enclosures 3 changes each.

I used crushed coconut and I absolutely LOVE it! It keeps a nice fresh smell in my tank for a good while, and it holds a good bit of humidity. Fairly Cheap as well. I give credit to kitedemon, I think kite was the one that recommend it a week ago in a humidity post of mine. I could not be happier! :)

Before crushed coconut I was using fine ground fir, and it was a mess most of the time.

Paper towels/blank newsprint all the way!

News paper followed by a layer of Carefresh Ultra. :)

WOW I said Kraft paper a while back

NEWSPAPER rules all in this household now

I put the savings from not having to buy Kraft Paper right back into the animals food or whatever else

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Originally Posted by ItsMichael805

none, i use paper towels, easier to clean and cheaper!

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Ditto!

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Originally Posted by Kysenia

I use aspen over paper front half and the back half is just paper, easier to control the warm side temps with a consistent depth paper compared to bunched up substrate. Half and half is cheaper then full aspen....

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I usually just do it the opposite since my animals tend to do their business on the warm side:rolleyes:.

i have the petsmart aspen in my enclosure now but am thinking ima pick up some eco earth for when i have to change the substrate in the enclosure for the carpet im hoping to get to hopefully add a more foresty look to the tub. just gotta see if i can dind it locally in a big enough brick

newspaper or paper towels for me.

I use newspaper or paper towels for all of my reptiles. I keep them all in racks, and I find it much more sanitary to be able to remove the paper twice a week or as needed, disinfect then place a new piece of paper in.

I use aspen and sometimes newspaper.

Discovered Sanichips this yeas and absolutely Love it!!!I t's keep humidity extremely well, absorbe waste very well and with spot cleaning you dont need to change it more often that once per month. I put around 1-1.5 inch layer on bottom of my tub. Greatest bedding ever :) In My opinion outclass Aspen in every aspect.

I use cypress in all of my bins... Always have great sheds... I usually change it out around 3wks but pick the bins on a daily bases along with supplying fresh water for Ball Pythons
My carpets and RedTail boas are on Aspen