Quote Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant View Post
I use both paper and aspen. I would choose paper any day, but my Dumeril's boa needs to burrow. Aspen is nice for a week or two, then it starts to get nasty (even with spot cleaning) it works fine of you are using an overhead heat source like a heat lamp, CHE, or RHP. But if you are using a UTH it really can become a pain since it doesn't transfer heat very well.
My last bag of aspen from Pet*** came with "bonuses".

First were the mites which, although they didn't bother the snakes, made the lives of my mice and rats miserable.

Second was the weird reaction to moisture.

If it got wet at all, it turned blue and then overnight, grew some kind of weird, cotton-like fungus up the sides of the tubs.

I am sticking straight with newspaper now and my Dumerils is happily burrowing around in the special shredded newspaper I made for her with a common desktop paper shredder I had laying around.

Just fold the newspaper and run it through.

I don't know what those mites were but they bite people too.