cypress mulch works wonderful, it resists mold and holds humidity very well. The downside to cypress is that it can be a carrier for bugs into your collection and I don't like to use my oven for my snake substrate. Normally our snakes are on newspaper until breeding season and then I convert to lab grade shaved aspen from harlan. It's easy to spot clean, resists mold better than other brands for some reason and is fairly cheap and bug free. As laying time get's closer I will add a egg laying chamber of moistened sphagum(sp) moss that the females usually use. This usually allows for me to only have to do complete bedding changes once or twice a month which stresses the animals less I suppose.

BTW, i've never had females kept on newspaper have problems laying eggs. In fact I don't know why I change to aspen except out of convienence to me. As long as the eggs are removed before they start to dry or as long as you provide an egg laying box, and handle gently there should be no problem with keeping them on newspaper.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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