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Hi, I'm setting my yearling male dh sunglow up in a vision cage this weekend. I've always used cypress or coconut bark as bedding, but everyone seems to be using aspen or newspapaer in thier vision cages. What is the best stuff?? Any advise please?! Thanx!
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Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea.
-Rime of the ancient Mariner

You can use the same substrate you have been if it works for you. Most people like paper because it is cheap and easy to clean.
Other substrates are usually only spot cleaned. However, for me at least, using paper towels I can easily see when there is even a small amount of urine (which you can not tell from other substrates) and I fully clean the cage and replace the substrate.

Aspen, Cypress, Newspaper, and Paper Towels in my opinion make great substrates, it depends on your needs and your animal. In all honesty I can't think of one species of snake that could not be kept on at least one of the four.

thank you for your input. Newpaper is way easier, but (and call me crazy) but how much do the animals like it?? it can't be very comfortable. Am I just out of my mind??
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Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea.
-Rime of the ancient Mariner

I use paper towels. Good soft ones. The snakes eat, shed, and breed fine, so I imagine they are comfortable in their habitat.

I tried using paper towel but my guys would always move them around and they would just end up going to the bathroom on the cage bottom anyway. How do you keep your towels from moving everywhere?

Luck I guess. I have some that bunch up the paper.

I keep the paper towels in place in my enclosures by placing at least one hide or weighted object like a water dish at each end of the tank. It seems to keep the paper down pretty well and the only time I've had excrement below the paper was if the snake happened to have dug under the endge when it heard nature call.

Paper towel it'll be then. Thank you!! My little guy just shed, I'll try and throw some pix on here this weekend.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea.
-Rime of the ancient Mariner

YOU clean every time? There is a woman in this house who wanted nothing to do with snakes that may take exception to that statement!

Thanks dad. I'm away at school right now so it is my wonderful mom taking care of 11 of my 13 boas while I am away! So technically she does the cleaning.