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Bolitochrome
at Mon Jul 16 15:21:41 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bolitochrome ]
No, I don't bake my Cypress mulch. I smell it thoroughly before I buy it. If it has enough oils to bother the skin of an animal it will almost always have a softwood smell. If it just smells loamy/earthy/wet, then I call it good. I use the same mulch brand for both snakes and rodents, including their nests, with no problems at all. They eat it, they burrow in it, the sleep on it.
I DO let the bags dry out flat in my garage for a while before using them though. This is just because I don't like using the very wet mulch for in tubs or cages because it can cause my humidity to get too high.
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26 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Silver Bullet, 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma, 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 1.0 husband, ?.? Mini-human
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Nope - Bolitochrome, Mon Jul 16 15:21:41 2012