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View Poll Results: What Bedding You recommend ???

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  • Aspen

    66 29.20%
  • Reptibark

    3 1.33%
  • Newspaper / Paper towel

    126 55.75%
  • Cypress Mulch

    18 7.96%
  • Other explain please

    13 5.75%
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    Re: What kind of bedding You use in your Rack???

    shredded aspen bedding in my display cages and paper towals in the racks
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    Re: What kind of bedding You use in your Rack???

    I use indented kraft paper.
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    Our rack isn't one species only at the moment, so it really depends on the individual snake, but also what I have available at the time (I like to buy things when they are on sale ).

    I like aspen for the low to mid humidity range, and I have ecoearth/forest bedding (coconut) + moss mixed in to maintain high humidity for the BRB. I've also used a mix of ecoearth and some form of reptile bark because I like how it looks, but it also makes a nice consistency for the baby dumerils to burrow in and push around. I reserve my newspaper and spare ads in the mail for the bottom of my bird cage.

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    coconut husk. I used aspen before, but its to messy. So I switched to sani-chips, again, messy. Than I switched to reptibark, but after a couple weeks its starts to smell. So I finally found a good one, coconut! Doesn't smell, extremely easy to spot clean, and not dusty.
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    Re: What kind of bedding You use in your Rack???

    We used shredded apsen, it gave me hives.

    Then we used cocohusk+reptibark mixed, which worked splendidly.. but then our snakes got mites.

    So now they're on paper towels. But, we're going to try sani chips in our rack, once we build it. Fingers crossed it won't give me hives too!
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    Do you all mist your aspen chips to keep up humidity?

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    I use aspen, but that's because when we had rats I bought a huge bag of it. I also have cypress mulch for the boa's tank because we have a few issues with humidity using aspen. Switching to the cypress tomorrow. Hopefully it helps!
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    I'm thinking about switching from paper towels & newspaper to shredded aspen. I like paper towels, but if they have a BM while I'm at work, I hate making them wait until I get home to clean the giant mess. I use substrate for my non-BP species.

    Where do you all get the finely shredded aspen that I constantly see in rack/tub photos? I would like to buy in bulk, because I have 2 racks to fill, but I'm having a difficult time sourcing bulk shredded aspen.

    THANKS!
    Last edited by Ch^10; 05-15-2011 at 03:25 PM.

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    Re: What kind of bedding You use in your Rack???

    Quote Originally Posted by Shadera View Post
    I use indented kraft paper.
    How do you like the kraft paper? I use newspaper and was thinkimg that the kraft paper might absorb a little better.
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