Originally Posted by Argentra
I wondered the same about the towel when I read that. Any fabric, from carpet to towels, will harbor bacteria like nothing else...no matter how often it is washed unless you constantly bleach it. As long as you are doing just that, and making sure the moisture isn't constant (to avoid scale rot), then I suppose that would be a fine substrate.
All in all, newsprint and aspen are the two best I've found after many trials with a variety of substrates (carpet, cypress, paper towels, just newspaper). I now use a layer of newsprint with a layer of aspen on top...and I've started using the Harlan shredded stuff for my snakes as opposed to the chip-like stuff from Petsmart(which is still used for my mice). The paper helps absorb liquids and makes cleanup a snap: just roll the aspen up in the paper and toss, then sweep/dump out the little remaining aspen.
Great Idea!!! I just bought Aspen and I'm waiting a few days, then when I clean out the cage of the Repti-bark (I think, whatever came with the cage) then I'll put newspaper down and then the aspen on top.
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