calci-sand

[bigballs]

i work at a pet store as well and i always recommend paper towel for babies and if you must use sand when they grow up then head down to home depot and grab a big bag of play sand.

edit: oh ya and calci-sand is not digestible.

[Snakeman]

ok now i know, thanks

[mlededee]

i wouldn't use any sort of sand in a leo enclosure. i tried the finely ground play sand for a short while. this was my experience: http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=45900.

[Kristy]

Thanks Emily for posting that link. I think you are the first person I have heard of using playsand and actually admitted there was a problem.

I see people on other forums talk about how much safer it is because they use it and don't have any problems. Maybe its because they aren't paying enough attention to their animals like you do.

I am changing my opinon of play sand now. There are so many safer methods out there. Personally now that I only have one Leopard gecko I have used tile and it works great.

[mlededee]

i had heard so many people say the play sand was safe i decided to go for it, but it was obvious fairly quickly that it was no good. with leos especially, there is just no way that they aren't going to ingest at least some of any loose substrate you put them on, so it's just not worth the risk.

[chris B]

I agree I would never use sand even with aduld bearded dragons, just my opinion. I use ceramic tiles *slate texture* for mine and he love's it. Like said above leo's do well on paper towel. Although sand is more pleasing to the eye, its just no worth the risk's.