Hey guys.

I just got off the phone from a friend of mine whose garter snake has just died mysteriously. She came back today to find it lying upside-down with its belly entirely red. The vets diagnoses is that it had swallowed a piece of ASPEN which had cut it internally and it had bled to death.

Aside from the fact that this is a very sad story, I currenly use aspen as the substrate in my tank for my BP. Should we be worried about using aspen?