Is Aspen bedding a good substrate?

[Barak666]

Maybe later. Are you seriously that shortsighted that you can't think that far ahead and come up with plenty of reasons on your own? Of course, you could just go ahead and do it, and find out the hard way. From a maintenance and cleaning standpoint alone, it's a nightmare.

Je te trouve à la limite de l'irrespectueux!

My dragon enclosure is fully planted and I don't have any problems yet with that. So I would just like to know why it would not be the same with a garter enclosure.

I don't care if you don't want to answer, in that case just write nothing instead of being rude.

I'm on this forum to ameliorate my knowledge, I'm not agressive or rude, so I would like the same from others.

Thanks

[ConcinusMan]

Ok, my opologies. I'll try not to be rude. With that said, with all due respect, a dragon is not a garter snake. Garter snakes will usually trample the plants, not to mention poop all over them, and garter snakes will get ill if the humidity is high, or the substrate damp. Garter snake feces are particularly nasty, watery, and full of bacteria, and substrate will have be changed fairly often, and kept clean and dry. That's nearly impossible if you want to plant your enclosure. If you like the look, what's wrong with something like this as an alternative? You can add more, or use less plants, and there's a wide variety of them available (I get them at dollar tree)



This is not planted and requires no soil or planters for the roots because there are none. Watering and damp areas don't happen, The plants are fake, do get trampled and severely soiled with feces. I just take them out and wash them, change the substrate and put everything back. I'm just saying if you plant real plants, it's going to be a PITA.

[Barak666]

Thanks, it is a lot more pleasant to read as answer

What do you use to wash your plants?

Would it work if I use plants in pot, so they can be easly remove to rinse them with water (it is sure that if I have to wash them with bleach or another chemical, I will forget the live plants)? I'm stick on live plants cause I like their ability to purify the air and absorb odours.

[ConcinusMan]

You could and I've tried keeping live one's in pots but it's hard to hide the pots as the snakes are always digging them up, knocking them over, trampling the heck out of them, etc. Still a major pain in the...

But anyway, I just wash them in hot water with a dab of hand dishwashing liquid, then a good rinse.