Quote Originally Posted by Salamander View Post
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.

Eugh. You should have told the store and then also contacted the manufacturer if possible. Because that is not good.