I personally use old cotton sheets for most of my snakes, and for my adult burm I either double up the sheets or use those cheap cotton blankets you can buy at WalMart (look kinda like felt) for about ten bucks. The sheets are very absorbant and look pretty decent (I do have a few tacky sets though LOL). They're also pretty cheap as I get most of mine from yard sales or thrift stores (such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc.). They are very absorbant of the liquid waste or spilled water bowls (though spilled water bowls do get things messier as there is more liquid to absorb). For cleanup I simply shake solid waste into the trash or commode and dump the sheets in the washer with detergent and bleach. I generally keep two sets of sheets for every cage so that if I have to clean all the cages at one time, I have another set to replace them with. All in all they make cleanup a snap and look a lot better than newspaper and are easier to deal with than wood shavings. The snakes seem to like them well enough, too - smaller snakes tend to burrow between or under the layers giving them a cage-wide hide. I got the idea from one of the old-timers on the boa forum a couple of years ago and really liked it - saved me a ton of time on cleaning day and looks loads better IMO.



Raven

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