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Hi everyone

I have two yearling milksnakes, female and male, thay had been in pine bedding, but I want to change to calci-sand. Anyone has something to tell me about it? Please anyone with experience advise me.

Thanks
Manuel Cantu

Do not use any type of sand. It is too dry. Use aspen or pine or even news paper. I have successfully kept milks on all of those mentioned above.

What type of milks are they? I wouldn't even use pine or aspen for Milks from aome of the more humid locales. I posted a question about this same matter a while back on this forum. Since then I've kept my Sinaloan on wood chips because where I live is pretty dry, and they're better w/ humidity.

Chatsworht, CA
reako45

I've kept all my milks on aspen for years. If you feel some of them need a little moisture you can put a tupperware container filled with damp moss in the cage and leave it up to the snake to use or not use.
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Steve W.

I agree,
Dont use the sand. I have recetly been turned on to Eco-Earth, and let me tell you! That stuff rocks! It's nice to look at and keeps my snake room from smelling like poop. My Black milks love to hide and explore in it. This stuff also keeps the cage nice and somewhat humid.
It only costs a few bucks for the brick, and is carried at most pet stores.
I have tried Sani-Chips, Aspen Bedding, News Paper, and even Calci Sand (for my Hoggs, which stank when it got wet). And non of these poducts compared!!!!

Thanks again to those of you who turned me on to this product!

OOPs,
Old pick when snake was on Sani-Chips.

Thanks again:
JasonMc

Thanks Everyone
I guess I'll not use sand. I'll keep with the pine bedding Thanks a lot everyone

by a lot of the posters on this forum. It seems that the pine gives off some kind of aromatic oil stuff (or something like that) that messes up your snakes.
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phflame
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>>>>>Posted by: phflame at Fri Aug 18 12:37:56 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

by a lot of the posters on this forum. It seems that the pine gives off some kind of aromatic oil stuff (or something like that) that messes up your snakes.
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phflame
kingsnake.com host
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Steve W.

If kept dry you should be ok.
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Steve W.

Or, Sani Chip and a container of Eco-Earth in the cage for humidity. You'll be amazed what your milks look like when hydrated properly.

If you live in a humid area, then sani-chip or aspen alone is fine.

Sand is not a good choice for snakes such as milks which spend most of their time below ground in burrows and crevices among tree roots, etc. If you want you can mix sand with Eco_earth.