Best deal on Aspen ever..

[infernalis]

Wal Mart just started stocking this. I paid less than $3 for the bag.

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/aspen.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

Sweet! will have to check here!

[guidofatherof5]

Very nice.

[Spankenstyne]

Is that actual size?


Kidding .. Great deal!

[brain]

That is a bit cheaper than I pay. I get 8 cu’ for $25.00 at my local feed store.

[sirtalis01]

Im going to check the walmart by me today..

[RedSidedSPR]

Today! I was about to go pay 10bucks for bedding.

[Mommy2many]

Mine doesn't have it:(

[RedSidedSPR]

Mine either!!!

[Jeff B]

Actually your 8 cubic ft bag at the local feed store is a better deal, here's the math:
1250 cubic inches converted to cubic ft is .72337962963 divide that by $2.75 (generous approximation of less than $3) = .263047138047 cubic ft per dollar.
Now take your 8 cubic ft divided by $25 = .32 cubic ft per dollar.
Now take .26 divided by .32 = .0832 ,so you get approximately 8% more cubic feet per dollar with the big local feed store bag.
I belive these computations are correct but I didn't take the time to check so if I'm mistaken someone please correct me.


That is a bit cheaper than I pay. I get 8 cu’ for $25.00 at my local feed store.

[infernalis]

Wow, never meant it to become a mathematical challenge, just a tip for getting affordable bedding at a store most of us frequent often.

[RedSidedSPR]

Ooow, my head...

Yo, infernalis, you know don't you that you PM space is full? Just letting you know. (yeah i got psychic powers)

[ConcinusMan]

Not a big fan of aspen, but dang. Sweet deal. I'm actually saving a bit of money by using some local hardwood shavings right now that I got for free. Pretty much the same properties as the aspen you got there. Like I said, not a big fan but if the price is right...

[RedSidedSPR]

where in walmart is it? i cant find it.

[infernalis]

I found it right next to the (generic) "Carefresh" & Pine bedding, one shelf down from the rat/mouse food.

[ConcinusMan]

Must have been some sort of clearance. They have it on walmart.com. $39.95 for cryin' out loud!

I thought this looked like a pretty good deal but I never really did any comparing or did the math. I just know it's tons cheaper than pet store prices. Thing is, I have no idea how many cubic inches are in 60 liters. I suppose I could check. EDIT: 60 liter = 3661.42 cubic inches. Wow. That's a lot. Will cost around $24 delivered though. I don't know, that's not too bad for carefresh.

Amazon.com: Carefresh Store Use Only 60 Liter: Kitchen & Dining (http://www.amazon.com/Carefresh-Store-Use-Only-Liter/dp/B0006L10FW/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1304612213&sr=8-11)

Unfortunately, I had a problem when I ordered it a while back. The retailer didn't deliver and I had amazon refund my card.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

My walmart here in sc has been selling it like that for years.

[infernalis]

I see it every day now, it's regular stock inventory.

[Millinex]

I didn't see any at either Wal-Mart I've been in, shame =/ . Thank god for paper towels being on sale all the time.. LOL

[ConcinusMan]

I see it every day now, it's regular stock inventory.


Always $3 ? a bit ridiculous that the website charges so much don't you think? I mean, 40 bucks? c'mon.

[RedSidedSPR]

I see it every day now, it's regular stock inventory.

Not in mine!! Dang. I found the carefresh and pine, but no Aspen..

[Mommy2many]

Found it today at my Walmart. $2.87 for the package. Thank you, Wayne!

[RedSidedSPR]

Was it in the pet section- small pets- next to the pine and carefresh?!?! DANG I want to find it! 2.87? C'MON!!

[Mommy2many]

Yes, it was in the pet section. I went there just as a joke basically (I was buying cat food and such). I never find anything but pine and cedar. Then on one of the upper shelves I found the shredded aspen bag. I pulled it down and it was exactly what Wayne had mentioned. For $2.87!

[RedSidedSPR]

Crap. There isn't even an "upper shelve" in mine. Sigh.

[Mommy2many]

Keep checking. I have heard members say they get aspen and carefresh at Walmart for these crazy prices and, well, that never happens here. I can't even find it.

[RedSidedSPR]

They DO have carefresh. but it's still really expensive. $15.00.

[kibakiba]

Seriously?

The carefresh my mom bought was white and from a different store that just came into business. She paid 30 dollars for it. Bridges Pets has it on the shelves, a GIANT pack for less than 10 dollars

[RedSidedSPR]

10 bucks is a good price, then? Seems expensive, but that's just me. I'm just sick of paying 10-15 bucks every month or so.

[kibakiba]

Its a 25.7 liter bag (expands to 50 liters) of carefresh, for 10 dollars, that is extremely cheap. If your paying for a small bag at 10 dollars, its a rip off.

[RedSidedSPR]

Than mine's a rip-off. Shucks.

[brain]

Not trying got hijack the thread but, If you are using “Care Fresh” a paper product what do you do with the waste material?
I have had my snakes’ room from the last 10 years and have always used aspen. I know that the aspen I discard breaks down in about in about 2 years and is good for the soil and as a weed suppressor.
Anything on Care Fresh?

[kibakiba]

I put it in my compost pile. Probably not the best thing to do, with all the snake poop, but it seems to break down pretty fast.

[Millinex]

I throw my waste in the garbage can.

[infernalis]

I dump mine on the property line.

[guidofatherof5]

I dump mine on the property line.

And on a certain property line a little more over:D
Just kidding Wayne.

[RedSidedSPR]

And on a certain property line a little more over:D
Just kidding Wayne.

Why not? I through mine over the fence.:D Not. (don't know why I don't. Our yard is full of his crap. A whole mattress not too long ago.)

I really throw it in the trash.

[Millinex]

I used to keep all roadkill snakes I found and put them over the fence, because I hated my neighbors and they where raging jerks.. Did it with a few mice to LOL

[RedSidedSPR]

LOL! Awesome! How's they react to that?

[ConcinusMan]

Not trying got hijack the thread but, If you are using “Care Fresh” a paper product what do you do with the waste material?
I have had my snakes’ room from the last 10 years and have always used aspen. I know that the aspen I discard breaks down in about in about 2 years and is good for the soil and as a weed suppressor.
Anything on Care Fresh?

Compost/mulch. You could do the same with it as you do your aspen. It is just wood cellulose (recycled newsprint) after all. Carefresh breaks down much faster than aspen bedding.

[ConcinusMan]

I used to keep all roadkill snakes I found and put them over the fence, because I hated my neighbors and they where raging jerks.. Did it with a few mice to LOL

I have a snake in the freezer reserved for just such an occasion except I'll probably put it their mailbox or toss it onto the front seat of their car when the window is open and it's blocking my mailbox.

[Millinex]

I have a snake in the freezer reserved for just such an occasion except I'll probably put it their mailbox or toss it onto the front seat of their car when the window is open and it's blocking my mailbox.
I prefer to use dead raccoons/foxes for things like that ;)

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, but a snake adds a little extra special touch.

[infernalis]

a leaf blower and a bucket of dust works wonders too. ;)

[ConcinusMan]

Just went to walmart two days ago. Low and behold, found Alfapet aspen bedding, 560 cubic inches, (9 liters) expands to 1250 cubic inches (20 liters) $2.87

It doesn't look like much, but it took less than one bag to use on 1 55 gallon long tank, 2 20 gallon longs, 2 10 gallon, and I didn't have to be stingy with it. Got two bags of that, and 30 night crawlers for 10 bucks. Not bad.

[RedSidedSPR]

Mine still don't have it!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I get a bale of 4 cubic feet of Aspen for $9.98 at tractor feed and supply... I think that is a pretty good deal!

[infernalis]

I get a bale of 4 cubic feet of Aspen for $9.98 at tractor feed and supply... I think that is a pretty good deal!

Now I have to look, Tractor supply is right next door to wal mart for me.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Now I have to look, Tractor supply is right next door to wal mart for me.
that is funny because i am about to go to walmart now! is this shredded aspen? I could use some shredded stuff!

[infernalis]

Yes it's shredded.

[ConcinusMan]

I think it was the feed store component that you need. There are no such items at any tractor supply around here. I know because the tractor supply is one of my stops for the fourth of July. Anyone know what happens when you take a fuse to a plastic juice container with a squirt of ether (tractor starter fluid) and a squirt of pure oxygen inside? Yeah, me neither.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I did find this stuff at my walmart for the same price. I like it because it is shredded aspen... it's the best for the snakes that like burrowing like my hognose and i also like it for my little garters. The big bale of shavings I normally use is regular sized shavings. I still am using newspaper pellet, but with a baby on the way, i don't know if I will continue to buy it because it costs a LOT more than aspen. By a LOT, I mean I can afford it, but why when the only reason I stopped using aspen was because sometimes the shavings flying everywhere gets annoying. So I may have to vacuum more often... but a $10 bale of aspen will do half my snakeroom, whereas a 25lb bag of newspaper pellet will only do 3 or 4 of the tubs in my iris cb-110 rack system (huge tubs) and they are about $10 a bag. Working at a pet supply place does have it's advantages, I can stake out for a really good sale on newspaper pellet and stock up. Not too long ago purina yesterday's news was putting out buy1get1 free coupons on some of their packages. I peeled them off the packages and saved them (customers dont appreciate them anyways! half the time they dont even see it) so I have 9 coupons and am waiting for a really good sale on the big bags to stock up! Regular price is like $16 a bag, so I wont ever buy it at that price, but if it goes on sale for like... $12.98, and I use coupons, it's a good buy. After that though, it's probably going to be back to aspen!

[drache]

Anyone know what happens when you take a fuse to a plastic juice container with a squirt of ether (tractor starter fluid) and a squirt of pure oxygen inside?
absolutely
someone ends up on the Darwin awards The Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com/)
and that general "you" who would be thoughtless enough to try your experiment will be the most likely victim

and isn't this a bit off topic?
or does your special recipe involve aspen other than for the clean-up after?

[RedSidedSPR]

Anyone know what happens when you take a fuse to a plastic juice container with a squirt of ether (tractor starter fluid) and a squirt of pure oxygen inside?

Someone get hurt

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, the walmart stuff is fairly fine shredded too and so the bags are highly compressed so you get a lot in small bag. And it's not really long shreds like I've seen before. IDK, I haven't really noticed any problems with this stuff "flying everywhere". Not a lot of light particulates (a.k.a. "dust") either, even though it's finely shredded.

One drawback is if you're using wide, shallow water dishes for neonates. One tiny particle gets on the edge of the dish and well, it sucks all the water out of the dish like a straw. Not all that big of a problem I suppose, if I improvise. I'll just have to adapt a method to keep that from happening. I could just devise a method to wall off the water dish area from the substrate or something like that. It's also a food magnet. Absolutely must feed them a million miles away from the nearest particle or it will figuratively fly across the room and land on their food. I have to put the snakes in a separate feeding enclosure and let them settle down for a while before I feed them.

Where there's a will, there's a way. For the price and the fact that the snakes just love the stuff, I'll figure out how to use it well and minimize the negative aspects. I've never been a huge fan of aspen but this stuff from walmart has a nice size/texture and it certainly is absorbent and reduces odor very well.

I guess I'm still in trial phase with it and I'll be watching for ways in which it works, or doesn't work, and try to post the negative/positive things about it.

[ConcinusMan]

Someone get hurt

Someone could get hurt smoking in an outhouse. I wouldn't recommend it.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

absolutely must feed them a million miles away from the nearest particle or it will figuratively fly across the room and land on their food.

lol

[Mommy2many]

absolutely
someone ends up on the Darwin awards The Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com/)
and that general "you" who would be thoughtless enough to try your experiment will be the most likely victim




Well put and couldn't have said it better:D