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    Dirty white snake

    I had recently used newspaper as a substrate for my blue eyed Lucy, and he got ink on his head is there any way to remove it? I’ve soaked him but it still hasn’t come off. Should I just wait until he sheds or is there a way to clean him?


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    This has never happened to me so this is just an assumption but I think that it'll just end up wearing off eventually. Possibly even before he sheds just through the moisture in the air and rubbing his head on stuff.

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    Re: Dirty white snake

    Quote Originally Posted by eeethannn View Post
    This has never happened to me so this is just an assumption but I think that it'll just end up wearing off eventually. Possibly even before he sheds just through the moisture in the air and rubbing his head on stuff.
    Hmm idk it’s been on there for a while lol soaking in water didn’t even seem to take it off.


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    Sounds like the title to a good hard rock song.


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    Quote Originally Posted by Godzilla78 View Post
    Sounds like the title to a good hard rock song.


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    It will come off in the next shed, hope it wasn’t something horrid printed on your Lucy
    ( he was probably trying a temporary tattoo before the real thing lol)


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    I had the same thing happen to Shayna, my Albino Spider.

    It will come off.

    However, I switched to printless newspaper and it's no longer an issue.

    I get it from Uline. Good prices and they have all different sizes.

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    I recently found out that the ink on newspaper is toxic. I was using shredded newspaper for all of my rodent bedding since I could get tons of it for free and shred it in my paper shredder. All of my white rats and mice turned a dirty black color. It affected the mice the worst, their testicles were swollen, they all looked very sickly, the new babies had short tails or no tails at all. I was amazed at how badly it affected them. I changed it out and started using Cypress mulch, all of the rodents recovered in a few weeks. I fed off all of the short tailed mice. Now I avoid even touching printed newspaper with my hands.


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    Quote Originally Posted by cchardwick View Post
    I recently found out that the ink on newspaper is toxic. I was using shredded newspaper for all of my rodent bedding since I could get tons of it for free and shred it in my paper shredder. All of my white rats and mice turned a dirty black color. It affected the mice the worst, their testicles were swollen, they all looked very sickly, the new babies had short tails or no tails at all. I was amazed at how badly it affected them. I changed it out and started using Cypress mulch, all of the rodents recovered in a few weeks. I fed off all of the short tailed mice. Now I avoid even touching printed newspaper with my hands.
    Wow I didn’t know. I only used it when I ran out of the normal substrate, and I stopped because he was getting ink on him.


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    Re: Dirty white snake

    There are plenty of people that use news paper tho, so hopefully won’t do any damage, but as already said you can buy plain paper


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