Aspen vs. Carefresh (yay, another bedding thread!)

[kueluck]

I use both, not at the same time, but when I empty out the tank I alternate her bedding. Gotta keep her on her toes........ah I mean her tail.

[ProXimuS]

With any wood splinters/product you have to be aware and concerned about the snake ingesting it.
If you feed in the enclosure be sure to monitor every feed so none of the splinters are eaten. They can be a death sentence to snakes.

Yea thats the only thing I've been worried about. So far he's only had fish, which he eats in his waterbowl. Once I get some pinkies and/or earthworms I'll have to figure out how I'm going to feed him. He's getting alot more comfortable now, so I think if I had to move him to another enclosure for feeding he would do ok with it


I'm kind of interested in trying the carefresh for him, because I used that with my rabbit(now passed away), and liked it for him. I'm wondering if he would burrow in it. He never burrows in the aspen, but he likes to mostly go in his favorite hide...I guess that better than burrowing to him!

[ProXimuS]

Well, speaking of burrowing....I switched my boy to his new cage today, and perhaps I put a little thicker layer of aspen in there, because he pretty much immediately burrowed under the bedding in the front, and is treating it like he usually does his favorite hide. Keeping most of his body hidden with his tiny head sticking out

[chris-uk]

One of our most curious girls will burrow so she's completely hidden, then pop her head up when she hears us walking past her viv. It's a comical sand eel sort of look.

[d_virginiana]

Harley actually decided today, for the first time since I put the aspen in, that she didn't want to burrow. I came in and she was climbing up the glue in the corner of her aquarium. She just turned her head to look at me and went back to trying to escape.

I'm not going to be feeding on the aspen again... Even though I put the food on a pretty wide plastic lid, and there was no evidence of pieces getting into the food (or food getting dragged out) I'm STILL paranoid over it, so I'm just not going to repeat that

[ProXimuS]

Hehe snakes are funny
When I found mine burrowing, I picked up a little bit of bedding where I thought he was, just to make sure, and he popped his head out really fast, like "What do you want!?!?" and went back under. Now he's gone back to his favorite hide, so I guess I'll see if he'll keep burrowing or not. I also made him a new hide for his new cage(a cardboard butterfly shaped box with a hole in the side), and want to see him go in it. He explored all around everything, just not inside the new hide yet....