ReptiChip vs. Reptile Prime Size Comparison

[Godzilla78]

I just disagree with everything Sauzo days. Lol. To each his own.
Aspen sucks

[Godzilla78]

I use 36” rolls of brown builders paper. No more ink covered newspaper.

[AbsoluteApril]

Well thanks to all these glowing reviews and pushy sales tactics (haha I kid) - I went ahead and bought 2 bags on amazon since that was a fairly decent deal.
I'm going to give it a try in some of my ATB cages. They are small cages, ATBs usually eat off their perches and they have multiple small urates/fecals so I think this might work well for them. Planning to keep everyone else on paper and single face corrugated (my king and corns have been and will stay on aspen for now). Will update after using for a bit and see how it goes.

Pains me to buy anything to do with BHB

[zina10]

Pains me to buy anything to do with BHB

LOL !!!

What I don't understand is why he had to put his face on the bags. I'd much rather see a cool reptile picture.

I only hope that it won't go downhill now, either in quality, customer service or price. (well, price going up) If price and quality stays the same, I can't see myself changing to anything else.

I do still hope that eventually someone will come out with the same thing or similar, so we get more purchasing options...

[Charles8088]

What I don't understand is why he had to put his face on the bags. I'd much rather see a cool reptile picture.

I don't know the whole story how he got stake in the company. But, I'd be willing to bet that the company probably contacted him for his high number of channel subscribers and views, and figured the endorsement of his face would help sales.

[zina10]

I don't know the whole story how he got stake in the company. But, I'd be willing to bet that the company probably contacted him for his high number of channel subscribers and views, and figured the endorsement of his face would help sales.

He did endorse Herptopia, at least in his videos. Praised it.

But then he bought it from what I understand. That's when the name changed, and the advertising. There were supposed to be all kinds of "cool" changes, like different sized bags, different shipping, etc. None of that has happened, other the new name and his mug on the bag.

The web page and facebook also seems kind of lagging, to me.

I just hope he won't tank it in some way or another...

[Sauzo]

Ok so a little update. I am so confused over this place. So i called the number listed as their contact number on the Reptile Prime website. It was the number for Cat Spot Litter company. I talked to the gal and she said the man that could tell me if they could give a wholesale or bulk deal for buying 10+ bags at a time was out and she would get back to me.

Now if i click on the Midland Organics and Mois links from the 'where to buy' tab, i dont find the stuff anywhere on their websites. If i click the Cat Spot litter company, i do find the stuff but it is rebagged as 'Cat Spot' litter. It offers two types of pricing, a recurring purchase where it is $15 a bag with free shipping or a zero commitment deal where it is $18 a bag with free shipping. Either of these is better than from the Reptile Prime site and seems to be the same stuff looking at it on their site.

So it looks like Midland Organics makes the stuff but they dont sell it on their website and there is no way to contact them unless you call them directly which would seem to get the same response i got from calling the number listed on Reptile Prime contact....which took me to a Cat Litter Company lol.

So it looks like the recurring subscription of once a month for anywhere from 1 bag to 4+ bags is the way to go if you are looking to save other than the Amazon deal which from what it sounds like is just a limited time deal. Lol if i like the stuff, i will probably just order it from the Cat Spot litter company. The bag is different but the stuff is the exact same speel. Or their zero commitment deal which is $18 a bag and free shipping which brings me to $180 for 10 bags which is about $30 cheaper than from Reptile Primes actual site. Makes no sense.....

[zina10]

The stuff for the cats is finer, more like Eco Earth, tad less fine, and very messy..

edited to say, the company did start out with making Cat litter, I remember that from an old video back when it was Herptopia. They then made a slightly different version for reptiles.

Man, I sure hope this is not going to take a nose dive, I REALLY like this substrate.

[Sauzo]

The stuff for the cats is finer, more like Eco Earth, tad less fine, and very messy..

edited to say, the company did start out with making Cat litter, I remember that from an old video back when it was Herptopia. They then made a slightly different version for reptiles.

Man, I sure hope this is not going to take a nose dive, I REALLY like this substrate.

It looks the same. Click on the Cat Spot site and go look at the pic of the stuff they posted. It looks exactly like the Reptile Prime. Kind of chunky but not like ReptiChips and not near like coffee grounds of Eco Earth.

Actually you might be right. I dont see any of the fibers in it like the Reptile Prime stuff has. But the pieces do look about the same size.

My biggest question mark though is why can i not find it anywhere else except the Reptile Prime site and even there, it links me to other sites which dont show it. So I'm kind of confused.

And not trying to be a downer. Just like to know where my stuff is coming from and all the info about it as i am rather picky of my reptile supplies

[SDA]

Was at a reptile show last month and actually saw some of the new fine substrate they are coming out with. Much smaller "grain" than the current stuff so if you want to have something fine for say bioactive or burrowers like rosy boas, see if they are now selling it. I really should have picked up a bag when I was there

All I know is Dante has never been more mellow since getting him on this stuff and I have not had one issue with him being dead so it is "so far so good".