Substrate options?

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I was sincerely wondering why so many places seem to lump pine in with cedar as things you don't want to use for substrate with snakes.
No one on here would recommend using cedar as the oils are toxic to snakes. But if you say it is ok to use pine are they wrong?, when they say you shouldn't use pine and why are they wrong, was just wondering and hoping you had the answer. please educate me, as I would like to know.

Cedar is definitely toxic.

I don't really know how the "pine is bad" thing got started. However it got started, a lot of people blindly read it, and blindly repeated it to the point it became commonly accepted.

Someone else may be able to provide a better answer and more info for you.