Quote Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons View Post
Umm just so you know some people have been using pine for 10-20+ years with snakes with no problems. Pine isnt proven to cause any problems within snakes. Also FYI aspen carries phenols as well as pine.

Some of your big breeders used pine till moving to cypress or paper
All of the major breeders' care sheets (and even the not-so-major ones) I've come across say stay away from it due to oils and dust causing RI, so I always have just as a precaution. I use newspaper for all of my snakes anyway. I use the pine for the rats, but my rats are nowhere near the snakes, so no pine exposure at all to my BPs. Just rather be safe than sorry later.