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View Poll Results: How often do you change your bedding?

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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    Quote Originally Posted by MitsuMike View Post
    Pretty much weekly or more often. I will clean if the food makes a mess like when they get the pee squeezed outta them, or when they poo or pee. Mine pee around twice a week and poop every 2 weeks.
    Im on paper towels though so it takes like 1 min to change

    With Aspen bedding I can just pick up their mess with a napkin and then sprinkle a little more aspen in the cage. Really helps out a lot as I don't need to change the place that often.

    I can understand that with something like newspaper or paper towels it would be a bigger problem.
    Last edited by EvesFriend; 04-28-2010 at 06:26 PM.

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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    I use bounty paper towel and each time they pee/poop everything is wiped down with cholorhexidine each time.

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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    if it gets really bad i'll change as needed. but once a month suits me and my balls just fine.
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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    I will spot clean, then usually clean and disinfect and replace bedding every two weeks.


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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    I change it every time the snake uses the bathroom. Then again, I use paper towels so complete substrate changes are quick and easy.
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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    when ever it dirty, they shed (cause they usually make it dirty then ) or at least once a month .

    It just happens they usually make a mess within a week of it being cleaned most the time. so it does get done moer often thant minimum.. I just wish I could sell the used beddign as muclh since mom decides it better t ouse it as such instead of tossing out lol.. saves a lot of trash space in the can. plus afte ra n hour outside it no longer smells lol.. I might just dig alarge hoel inthe yard and start to dump it in there and light it off once a year and let it burn down. then use the ash as yard fert. lol
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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    Since i use paper towels and newspaper i spot change twice a week due to water spills and bowel movement. I clean the racks with quat plus pet area cleaner, deodorizer and stain remover once a week. Side bar i am able to clean so often stress free because i only have 8 ball pythons 6 girls 2 boys
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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    i use unprinted newspaper, so i clean whenever it's dirty.

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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    I voted 'other'.

    I keep snakes on a variety of beddings.. Newspaper for the carpet python and cypress mulch for the rainbow boas. Newspaper gets full changes every time it's dirty, and cypress mulch with much smaller snakes on it doesn't get a full change very often.

    In addition, I'm going to be aquiring two new hatchlings in about 2 months, and I'm going to experiment with bio-active substrate in a terrarium setting. Ideally, with regular removal of large fecal matter and stirring of the substrate, it should not need to be replaced fully ever, as many people have gone years without needing full substrate replacement.

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    Re: How often do you change your snake bedding?

    I chose "other" 'cuz we don't stick to a rigid timetable. It varies. They get checked daily for everything and then every other day or so their aspen bedding gets turned, particularly the Blood python as he gets water everywhere. That's critical to prevent scale rot, molds, fungi, mushrooms, assorted small fruit trees and lawyers from rising from the depths of the muck.

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