If your snake is properly hydrated and heated, you should not have problems with impaction. Infections of the cloaca and the belly scales may result if your medium is kept too moist or cool.

As far as using bacteria to naturally break down waste...

This is possible, but I would think you would need quite a large cage to make work the way you want it to. You would literally be attempting to compost the snake feces. To do it quickly, you would need to balance your nitrogen source (poop) with a cellulose source (dry leaves, wood chips, etc. ) You would have to keep it rather moist all the time, and it could potentially get hot. (that would do it quickly, so your cage wouldn't stink like poop all the time.)

A more anaerobic approach is possible too, but I think your cage would smell terribly bad. The snake would basically be crawling around in its own feces.

It could work, but your success would likely be based on how large a cage you can provide. The bigger the better.

If you could provide a tank that had lots of soil, live plants, worms, and places where the hog could regulate its temp and humidity, who knows, it might just be awesome.

But... I've never tried it with an organism as large as a hog. Let me know how it goes.

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