Quote Originally Posted by killbee View Post
I have changed my substrate from carpet to aspen and have a question about feeding in the enclosure. Both of my bp's have always eaten in the enclosure. When I attempted to feed outside they would not eat. I am feeding f/t and even though I feed on a small clay plate they still get some aspen chips on the rat. Will this cause a problem with impactation?
Your BPs will be fine. I've seen hundreds of posts on this forum talking about how impaction "can happen" from aspen ingestion, but no one who has said it actually happened to them. On the other hand, people have witnessed the accidental eating of stuck paper towels (that killed them) on more than one occasion.