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- From: tracer@carson.u.washington.edu (David P. Tracer)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.herp
- Subject: Re: Cage flooring
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:01:33 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I currently use aspen bedding in most of my snake cages. It's main
- advantages are its cost (very cheap) and its extreme absorbency (important
- in the Burmese cage, since they produce a lot of liquid waste). I also
- use it in some of my cages with my smaller colubrids (i.e., corn snakes)
- and here it has a really interesting property. When tunneled in, the
- bedding holds its shape. I use a very deep layer of substrate in with the
- corn snakes and they've created a network of tunnels that they use. They
- can also go further down to get undertank heat or further up to cool off
- (in addition to the side-to-side gradient provided).
-
- Thusfar I haven't really found any bad problems with it at all.
-
- -David
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