Hello, I'm thinking about switching from paper towels to cypress mulch for my ball pythons who currently live in their tubs on a rack. Why? Because I'm sick of them messing around with the paper towels and there is a big temp difference above and underneath the towel. For example, above the paper towel, it shows about 89 degrees and underneath the towel, it shows about 98 degrees. I don't want to burn my pythons.

My question is this, if I buy cypress mulch, I know that there is a possibility of mites or some kind of bugs in the mulch. I could put the mulch in the oven but it is kind of silly to do so because I have too many pythons.

What would you recommend? Is it safe to use PAM on the mulch? Or ? ? ?

Thank you.