Lets play nice now. Everybody has a right to their opinion. I've personally been using paper towels for my hatchlings (thousands of them by now) for many many years and have never had any problems what so ever. But that's just MY experience. Others have different experiences and it's valuable to hear other viewpoints as well. I'd much rather hear an opposing view point from someone else's personal experience than from what they just heard elsewhere on the internet.

I've personally had hatchlings die from impaction by injesting the sand substrate that I was using at the time. Again, this is very rare, but it HAS happened to me and I'll make sure to tell others about it if they are considering using sand as a substrate.