Substrate for Bp's

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Gravel is not good. I use carefresh, which is actually not hard to clean at all because it clumps well. Aspen, which I don't use because it gets everywhere, is even easier to clean because you can suck it up with a shop vac. Carpeting or astro turf is only really good for snakes that don't hide much, like thamnophis. It's only real advantages is that it is easy to replace if you have a snake species with a fast metabolism, like the aforemenioned genus, or cribos. Snakes with slower metabolism, like boids, are better off with a loose substrate.