Hi All!

I was just at a local petstore where I saw that their Rosy Boa was being housed on reptile carpet, with a half-log to hide under and some branches to climb on. When I asked the manager why they used reptile carpet instead of a substrate the Rosie could burrow in, she told me that their breeder had told them that as long as the tank stayed humid enough, reptile carpet was the best thing to keep snakes on, including Rosies. He also told her that they should not be kept in a burrowable substrate until they were at least a foot and a half long, because they tended to ingest the substrate.

What are your opinions on this? Since I've never raised Rosies I wasn't sure if she was right or not, but I've never before heard a breeder actually recommend reptile carpet.

A lot of what she said didn't quite seem to make sense to me - keeping a desert animal in a humid environment? How do baby Rosies in the wild survive without reptile carpet to save them from ingesting dirt?

Thanks for your time!

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

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