The course grade aspen bedding should be perfectly fine.

Here is an older post about aspen bedding that may or may not help you out a little bit.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...nake-Substrate

As for your Taylor, I've heard they aren't exactly accurate. I was reading reviews for them a while ago and a majority of them stated that they arent worth buying. This is only what I've read though, someone else on here may have personal experience with them and say otherwise.

Hope this helped.