Posted by:
varanid
at Wed Feb 10 01:06:53 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]
cypress has been my favorite substrate for many years, in large part due to this. Only downside is seasonal availability. No stores here will have it in stock again until spring *sigh* I've used it on corns, kings, retics, boas, balls, vines snakes, savus...almost anything I've kept. Sand boas didn't seem to do as well on it--harder to dig in I guess or something. It's easier to manipulate humidity with cypress than newspaper, IME, and aspen. What I do is just put down a saucer, or cork hide, or something similar, and heavily mist under it...keeps a great local humidity.
Part of this may be that I've always lived in dry climates--even Colorado's pretty dry--so even moderate humidity snakes have needed more humidity than available without misting and/or moist hides.
[ Show Entire Thread ]
|
