Quote Originally Posted by RaeaTheGreat View Post
just chiming in here with a question. Whats wrong with wet aspen, wouldnt wet (not soaked) aspen help keep the humidity levels up? I mean, when you spray their tanks you have to spray something, you cant just spray the air, and most things in the tanks wont hold humidity....I have aspen in all my sakes tanks (snake aspen) and I've never had a problem with it being wet, but I could be wrong in letting it get wet........I'm just wondering why it is you say its bad?
As I mentioned earlier...spritzing it with water when you mist the enclosure is alright. But truly wet bedding...of any sort...will harbor/breed tons of bacteria and that bacteria can get under the snake's scales and cause infections. There are ways of keeping the humidity at the proper levels without restoring to wet bedding.

Someone might be able to get away with it for a time, but eventually, scale rot or other similar infection will rear its ugly head.