Quote Originally Posted by djstarfall View Post
hey Crowfingers, seems like you use some kind of shavings for your substrate? I am thinking of using aspen instead of newspaper (looks nicer with the decor I'm about to put in later) but i wonder how much of a mess my BP will make each time she poops and pees.

with newspaper, its a HUGE mess! if I were to use aspen shavings, wont i have to change out alot of the aspen? or how should i do it to cut costs?

P.S my BP is roughly 30 inches long, 380 grams. the tank base is 2ft x 1ft
I use the cypress bark, mine is almost exactly the same size... 345g and 30ish long. I order the 8 or 24 quart bags from amazon ($11-$22) and they last three-six weeks or so. When he urinates, I change all of the bedding around the area that is damp (usually 1-3 scoops from a cat litter scooper) a little more when he defecates. Then once a month I remove 50% of the bedding and mix fresh back in. He's in a 40 gal tank, so I still have a lot of clean mulch at the end of the month. It's really not that different from scooping a cat litter box.