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i currently house my balls in the grey vision cages. i have heat tape running under each cage and my temps are fine. its my humidity. it seems to run around 55-60%. i use aspen bedding for substrate. i do have cypress mulch available. i know it will definatly hold moisture and help the humidity rise. my question is will the mulch be too moist and cause any belly scale problems. looking for ideas from people who have used cypress with success.

joe

Cypress mulch can definitely dry out if you want it to, so really, the substrate will be what you make of it. It doesn't have an inherent moistness that is there indefinitely.

I don't like aspen because it molds at the humidity level I keep my pythons at. Cypress kicks a$$. But then again, so does newspaper!

if you just use the cypress mulch without misting or anything i think your humidity would go up like 20%. but when you misted it would would soar.
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 normal ball python (felix)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)

i know that humidity will go up but are there any healt problems attributed to the use of cypress. i dont feed in their cages so i wont have a real problem with ingestion but dont know if there is any that i mighthave over looked.

joe

there would be no heat problems that i can think of except i would keep the cypress to a lower level than the aspen as it isn't as airy. But overall it shouldn't cause any heat problems that i know of.
That is one nice piebald.

correct me if i am wrong anyone.
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 normal ball python (felix)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)

Cypress is resistant to mold. As long as it's not soaking wet where your snake usually hangs out during the day you'll be fine. I haven't heard of anyone experiencing scale rot with cypress, but that's just the folks i've talked to.

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LOL. Albino Ball Pythons are definetly on my dream snake list. thanks for sharing.
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Check Out My Albums

1.0 Ball Python
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1.0 Kenyan Sand Boa
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0.1 Australian Cattle Dog/Pointer
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