I'd agree. I tried using indoor/outdoor carpeting with my first two snakes. Doesn't hold humidity at all, and is such a pain to clean. I never got all the poop out no matter how much I scrubbed.

That is one pleasant thing I notice about my snakes - they tend not to have much odor, unless one has just recently "dooked". The poop doesn't even smell much if it dries, just when it is fresh and moist. The only other time the cage smelled godawful was when I was switching one boa to frozen thawed from live - he took a frozen thawed, but later decided not to EAT it.... but he had dragged it behind his hide, so I didn't see it. A few days later - oh, it smelled horrid. I thought he'd just pooped - and found what was left of the rat with my bare hand when I was reaching around feeling for poop with a paper towel. THAT was unpleasant.

But I use CareFresh bedding in my smaller cages (shredded cellulose/paper pulp product, you can find it at pet stores in bales, in the small animal section) and paper in the large ones.
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Lauren Madar
www.ophidiagems.com
1.1 Hog Island Boas
1.1 Hypo BCI
0.1 Sorong-type GTP
1.0 Normal Ball Python
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