You know, you always hear about how cedar and pine are toxic. The reason given is that they contain phenols. Well, that is fine and dandy but why is it that any "scientific studies" cited as evidence tend to be obscure references and never any hard published data?
Well, I don't know if this article is new to any of you... I read the discussion about pine in the corn snake forum and it wasn't mentioned there:
http://www.geocities.com/heavyhitter1.geo/Pine.html
I also found another interesting article that would attribute the real reason animals kept on pine may have more problems than animals kept on other substrates:
http://www.phoenixzoo.org/zoo/animal...november23.asp
Because pine masks the scent of ammonia (urine), ammonia levels can reach much higher levels than on other substrates.
Anyway, it looks as if how often you change your substrate is more important than what you use for it.
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