The right substrate is the one that works for you and your animal, that mean it can be paper towel, news paper, coco chip, coco coir, aspen etc, depends on what you want to achieve, whether or not you have humidity issues, time of the year, geographical area etc.
Forest floor does not cause scale rot, damp and dirty substrate does and it goes for any substrate.
Some substrate like mulch, coco coir that comes in bricks and that need to be broke down with water will need to dry a bit before use.
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