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Re: Bedding experiment
Hi,
Forgive my ignorance but what does the vanilla in the water do?
dr del
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7 adult Royals (2.5), 1.0 COS Pastel, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Lesser platty Royal python, 1.1 Black pastel Royal python, 0.1 Blue eyed leucistic ( Super lesser), 0.1 Piebald Royal python, 1.0 Sinaloan milk snake 1.0 crested gecko and 1 bad case of ETS. no wife, no surprise.
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Re: Bedding experiment
Glad to hear the test is going well so far Jamie. There isn't a Woody Pet distributor around here, but I did find a similar product (called "Dry Den") for just a little more. Just did rodents tonight, so we'll see how things go here too.
-Evan
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Re: Bedding experiment
Originally Posted by dr del
Hi,
Forgive my ignorance but what does the vanilla in the water do?
dr del
The vanilla helps cut down the ammonia smell from their urine, especially the slightly stinkier males.
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Re: Bedding experiment
I think the experiment is somewhat of a bust. It is now 5 days since the changeover and I came in to the familiar Ammonia smell. I am not sure if I didn't use enough or if I should have mixed in some Aspen. There are a lot of weans here and they make a lot of smell!
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Re: Bedding experiment
What is the condition of the pellets? Are they all used up...by this I mean all turned to dust or are there still whole pellets?
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Re: Bedding experiment
Originally Posted by lord jackel
What is the condition of the pellets? Are they all used up...by this I mean all turned to dust or are there still whole pellets?
I would say overall, 85% dust.
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Re: Bedding experiment
Originally Posted by jglass38
I would say overall, 85% dust.
If they are that far along I would guess you didn't use enough. When they are mostly dust that is when they no long absorb and start to realease ammonia. Would your usual stuff (aspen?) have lasted 5 days under the same circumstances?
Also you mention you have alot of weanlings...these might be why you are smelling faster just a much higher bio load??
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Re: Bedding experiment
Originally Posted by lord jackel
If they are that far along I would guess you didn't use enough. When they are mostly dust that is when they no long absorb and start to realease ammonia. Would your usual stuff (aspen?) have lasted 5 days under the same circumstances?
Also you mention you have alot of weanlings...these might be why you are smelling faster just a much higher bio load??
Probably I didnt use enough (just barely covered the bottom) and I have a lot of weans. Aspen starts to smell around 3 days.
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Re: Bedding experiment
Originally Posted by jglass38
Probably I didnt use enough (just barely covered the bottom) and I have a lot of weans. Aspen starts to smell around 3 days.
Yea...I forgot to mention that part in my earlier posts...I have to tailor the amount I use to the numbers in the bin.
But still sounds like it gets you a couple more days at least
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Definitely a couple more but ill have to see what I can do to get it better than that.
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