Ok, Eco Earth officially SUCKS again!!! At least for my baby snakes. Today I lifted Gina's hide to check on her and she had a mouthful of Eco Earth again!!. I believe what happened was the Eco Earth over top of the flexwatt gets warm, then it releases steam which gets trapped inside the warm side hide and forms to a really think layer of condensation. Well I think Gina got some of that condensation on her mouth and then it picked up the EE while she was making her little nest. Then she tried to rub it off on the wet sides of the hide and picked up more and it just snowballed. Anyways, I had to clean her mouth out with a Q-tip and a spray bottle of water. Basically had to wash it out of her mouth. She wasn't too thrilled about it but she was happy to take her hopper mouse lol and look for seconds lol. I noticed the same with Rango but he just avoids the warm hide if it is filled with condensation.
So I ended up going back to aspen. I used it on all of my big snakes since they were babies and it worked well and they are all big fat slugs now lol. I'll probably end up using the Plant IT stuff on my big snakes and using aspen on Luna, Rango and Gina and probably Dottie as well as she doesn't need that high of humidity and she seemed to like aspen too.
So words of wisdom, if you use Eco Earth, make sure your hides have air holes in the top to vent out the steam/condensation. I'm using RBI hides btw.
Anyways, here's a couple older picks of her exploring at night.
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