Quote Originally Posted by Gio View Post
Looks great.

I use a combo of that or close to it with Ecoearth mixed in or Ecoearth and cypress sometimes I use all 3 with some moss.

I don't change out substrate too often. I spot clean and most of the snake waste is fairly benign if you miss a spot or two it dries and degrades into the substrate.

It is actually good to have a certain amount of bacteria in the cage. It is healthy for the snake and the ecosystem within the cage.

A pure, and completely sterilized environment doesn't let your animal develop or build up any natural immunities.

NOTE there is a fine line between some healthy, natural cage bacteria and a dripping wet, mold ridden cage.

I typically do total substrate changes twice a year. Most of my animals either don't eat in the winter at all or slow down a great deal.

Hopefully nobody is spending too much $$ changing this stuff out too frequently.

The cages look really nice man.
Thanks. Well the nice stuff with this is it's only like $12 total per block. Cheaper if you buy it more in bulk. I only ordered 4 blocks to test it and so far, so good. 1 block is enough to do the 3 T10s so $12 a month for substrate is decent in my book. I mean heck their food cost per month is around $110 a month. I need to get a chest freezer lol.

The baby boas, BP and dumeril's are kept on Zoo Med aspen for now as the stuff is fluffy, soft and the baby boas LOVE it. Gina and Rango dig little tunnels in it and poke their heads out here and there lol. The aspen I change out probably every 1.5 months though as they don't destroy their substrate as bad as the bigger boas and especially Caesar do.

I've always changed out substrates fairly frequently though. I don't like the idea of my snakes or lizards crawling around in pee or poop juice soaked stuff. Just me. I tend to treat my pets like kings and queens lol.