Ok so i usually don't do much for the holidays, i used to live in the mountains of Utah well that another forum. I think i will spend this holiday, cleaning my snake enclosures and what not. My question is this, i read peoples forum post about the use of newspaper as a substrate and i was thinking of switching to it, i however thought it was un used newsprint like rolls and what not, well its not its just newspaper. How can the use of used C store, gas station newspaper be at all sanitary and how can quarantining your animals for 90 days than putting them on old newspaper be beneficial seems like you spent 90 days making sure your animal wasn't sick to put him on something that can make it sick. Are the used newspaper put under uv light to kill bacteria or just used as i. I am as some of you know going thru an illness in my collection that i have all but licked, i let 1 snake near my collection that i new was sick and was sent back and i am $3000 wiser. Why is the use of bald newspaper a recommended substrate even with the potential if illness lurking. I did buy 1000 blank newspaper sheets on eBay for $22 and i really like how easy they are to use. By the way reptilescan.com has changed my life its the best $25 program in the world check it out, it was just recommended to me.