I have had a few shipments that had paper towel used as a substrate and I think it had it's pros and a few cons as well. The pros are that it's lightweight, absorbent, cheap, readily available and non-ingestive (unless it's resident is a big snake that has a strange appetite). The only con I ever had with the few baby specimens I received in paper towels was there were about 2 individuals in separate shipments that kinda got wedged in the creases of, in both cases, a single paper towel and it looked like neither had any ability at that point that they could move, but we're talking 4-5 gram specimens that didn't have the kind of strength to wrestle out of the odd predicament they had gotten themselves into. I think that those circumstances were rare at best and could also be circumvented had the paper towels been cut into round sheets instead of one huge piece just folded multiple times to fit.



Having said all of that, I do agree that paper towels are probably the better choice over the sani-chips that are typically used as the pros far outweigh the only con I can think of.



Any other ideas and/or thought out there?
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Troy Rexroth

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