Just my thoughts on newspaper. All newspapers are bleached white using chlorine. When the snakes urea mixes with this a toxic gas is the result. I would guess frequent changing avoids this, but if you're away for a few weeks the buildup can affect your snakes, especially babies. There are alternative papers to use where chlorine is not used: Paper towels, napkins sold in health stores, whole food markets, etc., where no bleaching of any kind is used.

Mike

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• newspaper as substrata???? - mingdurga, Mon Feb 11 08:17:21 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrata???? - Nathan Wells, Mon Feb 11 08:29:44 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrata???? - mingdurga, Mon Feb 11 08:36:28 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrate???? - MikeRusso, Mon Feb 11 09:52:23 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrate???? - jyohe, Mon Feb 11 16:05:02 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrate???? - mingdurga, Tue Feb 12 08:41:11 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrate???? - DanW, Tue Feb 12 11:40:38 2008
• RE: newspaper as substrata???? - zach_whitman, Mon Feb 11 20:45:17 2008
• My personal preference... - Nathan Wells, Tue Feb 12 18:28:37 2008
• After reading... - GabooNx, Wed Feb 13 13:29:20 2008