you can definitely use wood chips, as long as you are careful about what kind of wood. It's best to start off the first couple months at least with a simple substrate of newspaper or paper towels so that you can carefully monitor your snake's output but once you get the hang of feeding and your snake proves to be healthy, you have some choices if you like wood chips.Originally Posted by Derteufel
I alternate between shredded aspen in the summer and shredded cypress in the winter. The cypress helps raise humidity, and looks great. Aspen does not raise humidity.
The key with using loose substrate is taking measures to prevent ingestion of it during feeding. Some people feed in a seperate tub with a paper substrate (or nothing at all) and some (like me) are able to feed on a plate or paper towel placed on top of the substrate right in the home enclosure. This second option is really designed for feeding prey that is already dead, otherwise it would just walk away from the clean feeding area.
anyway, good luck. I was thinking that if you wanted to dress up a tub, tank, or cage setup you could create a tombstone facade around it. you could even put the name of the snake on the tombstone. LOL!
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