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    BPnet Veteran Thom Noble's Avatar
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    Kenyan sand boa question?

    Does anyone use paper towels or news paper for Kenyan's? I have been using aspen but i really don't like it... any thoughts would be awesome
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    Shredded news paper might work, but I haven't tried it with my Kenyans.
    They need something to bury in and feel secure.
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    I think your best with the aspen. Like stated they need to burrow. Newspaper is probably to light to give them the feeling of substrate on top of them.
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    aspen or sand one of those 2
    newspaper kinda screws them over
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    Sand is usually discouraged. There is only one type of sand boa that does well on sand. The name slips my mind (it's early for me o.o)
    Besides I bet it would be 100000 times more annoying the aspen.
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    mine are on aspen and some are on sand,had problems with neither
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    i just got a sand boa day before yesterday. i put him on calcium sand...supposedly OKay for them if it gets ingested.
    So far, it does seem to kind of get everywhere, it seems dusty, and he pee'd, and I can't find it, because it doesn't clump. It STINKS. this stuff absorbs no odor at all...i'm already going to have to change out the whole thing in a little bit here.

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    Instead of Aspen, if you don't like it, try Sani-Chips. That is what we having been using for about 5 years now, and it works great.
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