Turbine eating in the air.

[Ks42]

Originally Posted by Starbuck

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.

well to adres this in a rather apropriate manner. i run and work at a pet stor for the past 8 years, even my suppliers suggest baking bedding due to FM like spores, several cases have occured were mushrooms have gronw and becomes visible within there enclosure, high humidity and darkness are key in mushroom grown,

fungal spors are one lead cause in respritory problems. this is a true fact, just likenot all fungi are dangerious but why wouldnt you take the propper precautiings to ensure a a good enclosure. safty first. if the people who produce it and provide it suggest you to bake it as a precautiobn, why wouldnt you, few minutes out of your day for a spore free enviroment and an even more controled encloser.
the question is, why wouldnt you bake somehting that can be potentialy dangerious to somehting you love?

[poison123]

Originally Posted by Ks42

ive posted everything as my own and friends opinions ,

Did you?,,,

Originally Posted by Ks42

fungal spors are one lead cause in respritory problems. this is a true fact,

[Ks42]

Originally Posted by poison123

Did you?,,,

from the infomation on mold and excessive spor inhalation ive read, yes, spores can cause lung infections,
me stating this is a fact was myslef being slightly egotistical and trusting somehting i read on an unfarmiliar site, my apologies. that being said, it isnt compleatly incorect due to the fact that yes mold spores can cause lung infections