Bedding

arampapik · 09-03-05, 09:23 PM

What type of bedding do you guys use/prefer for ca kings?
How is Pine shavings?
A friend of mine gave me a bunch of 'Northern White Pine" bedding that he use to use for his small animals, but i wanted to make sure its safe before i use it for mine.

Thanks in advance,

aram

mikeydadog · 09-03-05, 10:51 PM

Well there is a lot of debate on pine or cedar bedding, cedar is a definate NO! it's toxic to snakes! pine is pretty much split yes / no, although a lot of peeps believe it is toxic as well. I use a combination of that compressed coconut fiber and reptibark, as all my animals are kept in display cages. the ones not in displays use aspen shavings for bedding

Boakid · 09-04-05, 07:02 AM

Aspen shavings is the way to go as far as I am concerned

Pinto2 · 09-04-05, 03:50 PM

I use artifical wood shavings, and it seems to work fine. I try to make it deep enough so that the snake can burrow under them to hide. But if you want you could just use newspaper.

Cloudkicker · 09-04-05, 07:28 PM

I use aspen for most of my snake enclosures that are off display- it's cheap, looks good(IMO) and doesn't breed bacteria as easily as other types of mulch meaning you won't have to replace it as often. All of my display tanks have a 50/50 mixture of terra-fiber and cypress mulch. I don't use pine shavings and wouldn't recommend it, aspen is better by far, thats just my opinion.
-Andrew-

oscar · 09-14-05, 11:05 AM

another vote for aspen shavings. i had used carefresh but after switching to aspen, i've found i like the aspen alot better.

arampapik · 09-14-05, 07:39 PM

Thanks guys, I do appreciate the help.

impy · 09-14-05, 08:39 PM

aspen. works great i use it on my rats & snakes never had a problem