substrate from garden center?

[ch312]

i know ive read on here before that you can get mulch and bark from the garden center much cheaper than from pet shops. but after doing a few searches i came up with nothing.

what types of bark or mulch should i look for at lowes, home depot, etc?

[Neal]

Depends on what kind of snake, I also wouldn't recommend the mulch from them or any for that matter. I bought a bag of cypress mulch from walmart, put it in the tank, misted it, was setting up for my snake, and I noticed some bugs crawling around in it. I guess it's all personal preference but I would spend the extra dollar or two on the stuff specified for pets, like T-rex cypress mulch is double milled, so its smaller, and less chance of it having trash in it, also the cypress mulch I got from walmart seemed to had some small pieces of glass? Possibly just really hard plastic, but either way.

[ch312]

lol it sounds like walmart is just going around to parks and filling up their bags with mulch!

hmmm....that gives me an idea...

[Neal]

I would just stick with purchasing your substrate online.

[Smith285]

I get aspen from tractor supply co. really cheap. I don't think I've heard of anyone getting mulch and using it as substrate, seems kind of dirty to me. They don't care much about anything being in it because it's supposed go in the ground...

[Neal]

A lot of people use cypress mulch, you just get the ones for Reptiles.

[frankykeno]

You can always either bake the cypress mulch or freeze it before use. The stuff from Home Depot tends to be packed very wet anyways so you need to deal with that before it goes into a snake enclosure. I've been searching myself for double milled cypress but it's a lot harder to find and a lot more expensive.

[Neal]

You can always either bake the cypress mulch or freeze it before use. The stuff from Home Depot tends to be packed very wet anyways so you need to deal with that before it goes into a snake enclosure. I've been searching myself for double milled cypress but it's a lot harder to find and a lot more expensive.

You're looking for Cypress Mulch by T-Rex, It's not really expensive and it's double milled, Its smaller pieces, looks a lot better then regular cypress mulch. If you want a picture of what it looks like send me a PM.

[Lucas339]

i got no float cypress mulch from lowes. it is milled to a smaller size than normal cypress....not sure if its double milled or not.

[ch312]

You're looking for Cypress Mulch by T-Rex, It's not really expensive and it's double milled, Its smaller pieces, looks a lot better then regular cypress mulch. If you want a picture of what it looks like send me a PM.

buddy, give it up already. i didnt start this thread to have someone preach about what i should or shouldnt be using. you have made 4 posts and they all say the same damn thing. you want to send me some money to buy the overpriced bark from a pet shop?

the fact is pet shops sell the exact same thing you can get at other places for much higher prices. a perfect example would be wood shavings. goto a farm supply store and its $6 for a big bag. goto a pet shop and its $10 for half the amount of shavings. the same is likely true for bark substrate. a bag of bark is $40 at a pet shop. the same thing is likely $15 at a garden center, if that. i just needed to know what type of bark to get.

i dont like the look of aspen so i wont be using that