I have to agree with Brad on this one. Many, many years ago aspen was not readily available as a reptile subsrate. Back then I primarily used pine as most others did as well. The only major problem I had with pine was back in the early 80's when I had a lot of baby snakes in small containers within a larger cage that were on pine. A lot of them tipped the water dishes and the aroma/odor from the pine was really high. I lost a few snakes and some others seemed to develop neurological problems. After a few days on paper towels and in better vented enclosures they came around and were fine. I still use pine on all of our rodents, both breeders & resale. I believe pine would be fine in a very arid/open enclosure but not in one that requires higher humidity.

Bruce Delles c/o Twin Cities Reptiles

OVER 30 YEARS IN THE RETAIL REPTILE BUSINESS
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