I use to use cypress mulch as it did a good job keepin up the humidity and it looked nice... now that I have have more snakes it would just be too expensive to use it in each tub. If you check out my gallery I have pictures of the custom cages I built that could be considered "display cages"... Im not sure if this is your first snake or if you just recently got it but if it is Id throw down some paper for a couple weeks so you get an idea of how much these animals poop n pee. Although the bedding looks nice its a pain to get it clean... u can spot clean but thats pretty much only for poop n the solid urates... all the other liquid crap that does come out and you cant see... will be chillen in the snakes cage until you change the bedding. I supported the whole "display" cage when I got my first snake... but after seing them sleeping all day I realized hey theres not really much to display.