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06-05-04, 11:51 PM
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Join Date: Apr-2004
Location: Manitoba,Canada
Age: 34
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BP's Cages
What do you guys use for cages,substrate ect.?
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06-06-04, 03:21 AM
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Location: Northern California
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I use Sterilite containers for cages and either paper towels, newspaper, or aspen for bedding.
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06-06-04, 07:01 AM
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Location: Ontario
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Rubbermaid and newspaper/paper towel.
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06-06-04, 11:12 AM
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Join Date: Apr-2004
Location: Manitoba,Canada
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im using a 50g and use pine shavings(not a strong scent though)
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Kevin McRae
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06-06-04, 12:40 PM
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Location: Manitoba
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50g tanks are great... for fish.
Pine shavings are great.... for mice.
You need to cater to the snake's needs, not make it cater to yours. Tanks "can" work for ball pythons, though a 50g seems REALLY big to me... even for an adult female. I wouldn’t keep a BP in a tank though.
If you want to use a natural looking substrate, I would recommend aspen or bark mulch. Pine is nice and cheap but it's not ideal for keeping reptiles on.
Let me know if you want some bulk aspen. I can get it at a really good price. 
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06-06-04, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Kansas
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it doesn't matter if it "doesn't have a strong smell" pine has OILS in it which can get in the BP's lungs.
Aspen, repti-bark, cypress mulch, news paper, paper towels, repti-carpet, even towels are better than pine (or cedar).
I personally have a sterilite container I use for my snakes, it's 34x16x6 (lwd).
I use newspaper for substrate.
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06-06-04, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Green Hell WV
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I was always under the impression the oils in Pine and Cedar are toxic to BP's? We've got glass and tupperware setups at this point - glass mostly for quarantine and monitoring - usually just 10gals for incoming younglings. Substrate ranges from Aspen (what the wife uses at any rate) Forest Bark, "plastigrass" carpet and even newsprint (a godsend when dealing with mites) or paper towels (used for recovery and when we've got to apply antibiotic cream). So long as you can keep humidity where it needs to be without stagnating the air and the substrate isn't toxic or potentially harmful when ingested.
Low maintenance and cost-effectiveness start to play a role when collection size increases - just depends on what you are willing to invest in terms of dinero and time. Huge glass IS a royal pain simply from a weight standpoint when you go to do a thorough cleaning though. We had a 55 gal donated recently and it wound up hosting . . you guessed it - rats.
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3.4 ball pythons; 0.1 African rock python; 1.0 brown water python; 0.1 Sumatran Red Blood; 1.0 Black Blood Python; 1.0 Durango mountain kingsnake; 0.1 striped California kingsnake; 1.0 Pueblan milksnake; 1.0 Sudanese plated lizard; 1.1 canines; 0.1 feline; 4.1 humans
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06-06-04, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: May-2003
Location: manassas virginia (USA)
Age: 38
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'maid and aspen
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06-07-04, 06:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr-2004
Location: Manitoba,Canada
Age: 34
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Ya I would really appreciated it if you could find aspen in bulk for cheap.........................thanks
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06-07-04, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Green Hell WV
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3.4 ball pythons; 0.1 African rock python; 1.0 brown water python; 0.1 Sumatran Red Blood; 1.0 Black Blood Python; 1.0 Durango mountain kingsnake; 0.1 striped California kingsnake; 1.0 Pueblan milksnake; 1.0 Sudanese plated lizard; 1.1 canines; 0.1 feline; 4.1 humans
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06-07-04, 11:35 AM
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some of my smaller ball pythons are in rubbermaids, one is in a tank, and all the bigger ones are in malimine enclosures with sliding glass fronts.
substrate is paper towels for rubbermaids, towels for enclosures..... towels have been great for clean up, but smelly to wash!
I have my pine snake in aspen, cuz she seems to like it better & burrows in it.
Jessy
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