Living in Michigan we especially love using it here in the winter time to keep up the humidity in the animals enclosures when it is hard to do so using everything else, especially things that really can't be wet down. A lot of other substrates can't tolerate being too wet for too long without molding up on you. Its pretty easy to keep up, nice for spot cleaning when you need to instead of full changes all the time, although full changes are still needed. Then as mentioned its heavy, when you have a lot of animals to go about cleaning, you can be looking at some pretty heavy trash bags, and well here garbage men are a bit fussy, too heavy (for them) and they won't take it.



As said there are quite a few pros to using it, and then the cons. Newspaper still is my favorite substrate for a lot of things just because how easy it is to clean up and replace, and well not as messy as woody type beddings can be with the dirt and dustlike particles they tend to kick up.
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-Amelia

ES Tropicals

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• Cypress as substrate? - FireStorm, Tue Jun 12 18:51:15 2007
• RE: Cypress as substrate? - thebigsquease, Tue Jun 12 19:04:36 2007
• RE: Cypress as substrate? - Amelia, Tue Jun 12 19:11:04 2007
• RE: Cypress as substrate? - jyohe, Tue Jun 12 19:27:39 2007
• RE: Cypress as substrate? - FireStorm, Wed Jun 13 04:52:21 2007
• Cypress is awesome! - zefdin, Wed Jun 13 06:54:09 2007
• How do you spot clean? - mikebell, Wed Jun 13 07:28:52 2007
• RE: How do you spot clean? - zefdin, Wed Jun 13 07:57:54 2007
• RE: How do you spot clean? - JenHarrison, Wed Jun 13 23:28:26 2007