Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
For me if their enclosure gets dirty it smells like the dark, wet areas of an old forest...sort of musty, sort of mushroomy if that makes any sense at all.
That's the best description I've heard so far. I haven't been sitting around smelling their cage trying to peg it down, but that is definitely a very good description of the smell.

So, not something you would want to keep in your snake room.
I've kept all of my rats at one point or another in the snake room. No real difference.