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Originally Posted by Ks42
fungi spors are the leading cause of lung and respiratory issues and can caus alot of issues, and are also very commen in coco husk bedidng as well as plantation soil. nbaking is a must if you ask me
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Every time you pick up your snake, or fill its water dish from the tap, or feed it a live prey item, you are introducing it to fungal spores and bacteria. The World is not sterile, and a properly picked up snake enclosure is not going to kill your snake with exposure to these microbes. Additionally, not all fungi causes disease, i can eat a whole tub of bakers yeast and i won't get a lung infection; it takes the right microbe at the right time, with access to the right environment to cause illness.
A healthy, adult snake with access to proper humidity and temperatures, regardless of its substrate (or ingestion of that substrate... unless maybe it ate a whole slab of repticarpet or something) is NOT going to get sick from 'fungal spores' in its bedding.
I have never baked my substrates, and have used cocohusk, aspen, newspaper, and now cypress mulch, and i have never had an issue with respiratory infections in any of my snakes.
Some of the healthiest, and best-kept snakes on this forum use bio-active substrate, picked up outside and dumped right into the enclosure.
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