Quote Originally Posted by luijibored View Post
I just switched from aspen to INDENTED KRAFT PAPER. I've read all the threads and I know that aspen is well liked but I just spent $3,000 on my man-made snakes and had to pull out a lot of aspen from the mouth of one of them. I can not afford to take the risk just because "in nature they eat a lot of debri". These snakes are not from nature, they have been born in captivity for many generations and their natural habitat is that which we provide for them and not nature. I used unprinted newspaper under indented kraft paper for twenty years and recently switched to aspen. This switch got me real worried by the amount of aspen the snakes eat with their meals. I switched back to INDENTED KRAFT PAPER it is the best substrate for your unnatural man-made babies.
It is good that you are pleased with your decision to switch.

I wonder about your manmade babies though. How many generations of captive production are in your manmades? 10? 12? I can't imagine it being any more than that.

I wonder if 12 generations, being extremely generous in that 12, is enough to change millions of years worth of reptile evolution.

What you do to PROTECT your manmade investments is good. However, it has little to do with those investments ability to ingest without harm bits of substrate.

I believe the original question was will the snake be OK, or should the OP be worried about it. He was not asking what to do to best protect his manmade investment.

It is often the case in an online forum that the question morphs, heh heh heh, into something other than what it began as.

Your answer is good. But not for this question.