I tried wet towels on a big boa during rather dry weather here to boost humidity. That idea worked very well. I went on to use the towels as the only substrate.



As the others mentioned, washing those towels soon became a chore, and I wonder how economical it really is using a washing machine. So I went to dimpled Kraft paper instead, and used a wet towel in a bucket in the cage to help with humidity. Better solution for me.



Newspaper is cheap and really is a good substrate. Because the snakes can get under the newspaper, it holds humidity better than many wood chip substrates.



The Kraft paper can be found at uline.com. I spent around $60 and got a huge box of precut pieces - enough to last many months.
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Mark

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• Are towels suitable bedding for snakes? - mitchbuff, Sun Feb 15 03:00:18 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snak - LarryF, Sun Feb 15 13:19:49 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snak - anuraanman, Mon Feb 16 14:29:33 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snakes? - markg, Tue Feb 17 12:57:16 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snakes? - celticvamp, Tue Feb 17 18:19:51 2009
• Not the best - I have on on a towel now - dekaybrown, Fri Feb 20 16:02:45 2009
• RE: Not the best - I have on on a towel now - merlin7676, Wed Feb 25 18:43:43 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snak - mfoux, Fri Mar 6 07:34:21 2009
• RE: Are towels suitable bedding for snak - mldolan, Wed Mar 11 08:46:46 2009