What type of substrate do you use?

[Melicious]

I've been using Aspen, I usually get the giant bags, I like to cover the tank with about 1-1 1/2 inches of it to let my ball tunnel around, he loves doin that

Does any1 have a snakes that goes to the bathroom in their hide rocks?

Ophelia's taken to doing that as of late. It's not that big of a deal, just clean it out, I suppose. Well, no. I don't suppose; I do it.

I personally prefer aspen. The kids really like it, or so it seems, and Ophelia loves to burrow into it and Ody's taken a liking to doing so.

[Ginevive]

I like aspen now; the shredded, not the flakes or shavings. It makes a kinda "mat" in your cage that basically stays put; although my bratty BCI like to burrow in it. Care needs to be taken that yer snake cannot be burned by your UTh though, as aspen slides around sometimes. I put some layers of newspaper underneath.

[JamminJonah]

I'm an "other"

newspaper on bottom
zoo med repti bark
aspen on top

easy cleaning, lets air get under the aspen - good humidity and no belly rot.

[Maya]

I thought about newspaper, but I'm such a decorative loser, that I just couldn't bear the sight of black and white print on the bottom of the tank. That, and I wondered if they spilled their water if it would stain their bellies. I don't know...

I use Aspen. It's cheap and works well for picking up snake poo. I think I'd want to switch to some bark pieces eventually. Strangely, I don't have to use much because both Baby and Pharaoh like to renovate and move it to one side so they can loaf on the glass part.

They're weird like that. <3

[Melicious]

I gotta tell ya. I switched to newspaper and it works sooo much better when it comes to cleaning. It's a lot easier to replace, and it removes spot cleaning. I just take all of the paper out, wipe the glass down from top to bottom with some form of cleaning supply and put in new paper. Easy.

Not to mention, Dad gets these Bass Masters news papers every week or so so I don't have to BUY anything.

[Razaiel]

I switched to newspaper a couple of weeks ago - but I don't like to see a bunch of print so I put white paper towels on top.

[rmune0750]

can someone show me a pic of what ASPEN substrate looks like???

[Grim91Z]

Btw, I converted to just plain newspaper today. Gonna give that a try. Thinking about going the coconut husks route later.

[rmune0750]

so overall it looks like newspaper is used more then ne other strate!

[rmune0750]

Btw, I converted to just plain newspaper today. Gonna give that a try. Thinking about going the coconut husks route later.

ooo, i like that