Quote Originally Posted by Kagez28
i lay down a page, which is two sheets, then put my thermostat and thermometer probe down, then another page of paper. so four think layers total. i don't think an inch of newspaper would work very well. it would be to think to let the heat in and you would end up running your UTH very hot just to get the top of the news paper warm enough. the shredded newspaper works, but when you mist to get the humidity it kind of turns to mush. so i just use plain old newspaper.

when you say your BP didn't seem happy with it, it seems to me thats because you took away all the scents he previously knew. now it's like his in a new place with new smells. so expect him to explore his "new" are a little then he'll be back to his good old self.

hope this helps.
To clarify, the shredded portion of the paper is very loose and fluffy. at any point if you were to smash it down it would only be equivalent to a few more thicknesses of paper. So, in the areas he frequents its "trampled" down and roughly equivalent to just having a few sheets of newspaper. The borders of that area remain fluffed up and it kind of creates a little nest area.

It definately could have just been disruption like you say. He did change his behavior back pretty quickly after I added the shredded though. I don't have really closed in hides for him so I think he's always relied on the ability to nestle into the substrate a bit as a way to adjust for that. Maybe the shredded paper kind of added that back in for him.

It doesn't seem to bother him but since I had never seen anybody do it I was curious if there might be some unforseen consequences.