Hello everybody, I was wondering if what I'm doing
would be okay for my female spotnose ball python.
She's a little over a year old in a 10 gallon tank but
I have a 55 gallon that I'm prepping for her and will
add many hides and or half off the enclosure to make
her feel more secure if need be (maybe thinking foggers
along with dehumidifiers working symbiotically in tank)..

Now, before people start telling me tubs are better
which I'm aware of, I'll make sure this thing is dialed
into the correct environmental settings. I'm versed
with very picky plants so this won't be an issue for
me. What I'm mainly wondering here is if it would be
okay to use these soft nylon/latex bottom bath mats
as a substrate or just as the bottom of the tank with
sphagnum moss as the substrate. I made sure it was
a non yarn-laden type fuzzy mat that wouldn't snag
scales at a reverse direction. If not prefered for textural
reasons pertaining to the muscle development of the
snake for some reason, I'll use sphagnum moss as the
substrate and mat as the bottom so if she burrows she
will touch fuzzy instead of rubbing glass; if nylon fabic
and or laxtex thats used on the bottoms are toxic I still
have the washable reptile substrate sheet I can use as
the enclosure's backing for the shattered parts of the
tank's back wall. Out of everything I'm exhaustingly
wondering I just want to know if materials are toxic
in anyway , in the way cedar wood chips would be,
to my sweet spotnose ball python. I searched the
internet relentlessly and found nothing pertaining to
the materials used, or any bath mats being poisonous
or harmful to snakes. I'm very sure I'm just being extra
cautious, as any novice or even experienced herper
should be, and am making sure I don't mess up. The
tank I got was for free, and discovered the back of it
is shattered which matters not to me as it won't be
holding any water, so I'm putting one of the mats
against the whole back wall as a cover from the glass
that's shattered and to double as a background/soft
material to rub up against. So even if I go with another
substrate, I still have these fake grass pads for reptiles
which I originally had for the broken glass wall until I
bought these bathmats and cut them up. I'll post pics
of the development in a bit depending on feedback ITT.

Thank you in advance!

RustlewoodReptiles