I hate to dwell on it but the BIGGEST change you need to make is to increase the overall cage humidity. While the most common cage type people use are aquariums, their screen tops are not good at all for milk snakes in central heated and cooled homes due to not holding in humidity. Your milk shedding in peices had nothing what so ever to do with aspen but with the humidity. If you put in a large water bowl and cover 95% of the screen top your humidity will increase and your milk will be much better off. As far as the aspen, the reason I recommended that as opposed to newspaper or paper towels like amazondoc mentioned is because it makes a milk snake more comfortable, giving them more security for burrowing.

The things I mentioned I only do so because they have worked for me over the years while keeping large numbers of milk snakes.









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Randy Whittington

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• Okay, problem! - jazmaniandevil, Sun Jan 31 18:00:10 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - amazondoc, Sun Jan 31 18:25:38 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - jazmaniandevil, Sun Jan 31 18:56:26 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - RandyWhittington, Sun Jan 31 20:37:43 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - jazmaniandevil, Sun Jan 31 21:10:09 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - amazondoc, Sun Jan 31 21:15:06 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - RandyWhittington, Sun Jan 31 21:34:05 2010
• Good advice Randy! - DMong, Sun Jan 31 23:51:59 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - amazondoc, Sun Jan 31 21:12:19 2010
• RE: Okay, problem! - jazmaniandevil, Mon Feb 1 08:57:32 2010