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how many of you guys use news paper or paper towels for a cleaner and easy to change cages for your snakes.

I occasionally use paper towels for young snakes because they are easy to clean and can not be ingested (which is a plus for finicky babies that will only eat after you leave the mouse in with them). Other than that, I generally use aspen as most snakes will burrow in it and therefore it doubles as a hide.
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Andy Maddox
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>>I occasionally use paper towels for young snakes because they are easy to clean and can not be ingested (which is a plus for finicky babies that will only eat after you leave the mouse in with them). Other than that, I generally use aspen as most snakes will burrow in it and therefore it doubles as a hide.
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>>Andy Maddox
>>AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
>>MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
>>Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
>> Houston Herp Key
>> The Reptizone
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>>Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry
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1.0 Corn snake
1.0 Black rat snake
1.0 Albino Black rat snake
1.0 Everglades rat snake
0.1 Yellow rat snake
1.1 California king snake
1.0 Prairie king snake
0.1 Black king snake

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

I use both!! Since I gave up aspen years ago....my cages are cleaner, and there is not " snake room " smell. Paper towels for the young ones and newspaper for the bigger ones. Maintaining cleanliness has never been so easy!
Billy
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Genesis 1:1

Paper towels here, for all my snakes and my Beardie currently.
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1.1 Ball Python 0.0.1 corn snake 1.0 Bearded Dragon
0.0.2 fish 1.2 cats 3.1 kids 1.0 husband and now...
0.0.1 Pink Zebra Beauty Tarantula
2.0 Solomon Island Boas

paper towels for new or sick snakes other than that aspen
Wayne

Yep- tried aspen years ago and hated having to sift through it. I never felt it was really clean unless I dumped it once a week. I was also keeping fish eating snakes at the time that usually dragged their meals through the shavings so I was always worried about impaction. Paper is easy, fast, clean and cheap.
Lora

never use them. I (depending upon the moisture requirements of the species kept) use Aspen, Cypress mulch or spagnum moss. my sidewinder and horned vipers live on sand.

Frank
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