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Hello all, I'm looking for a good substrate for both my ball and burm. I've used paper towels, but recently left them in favor of nicer looking substrates. I've got my corns on aspen which is perfect for them, and I've been using Repti-Bark for my pythons. The Repti-Bark does hold humidity well, but I've found it to be terrible in terms of cleanliness. They don't absorb anything from my snakes, and are just a general pain in the butt. I'm either going to try Cypress mulch or cocunut litter next. I"m leaning towards cypress as I hear good things about it, but am looking for people with experience with coconut bedding? Anybody got some .02?
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I've used coconut fiber substrate (like Eco-Earth for example) for kingsnakes/milksnakes. It is safe and works well.

Another option for you is to use a dry substrate like aspen or Sani-Chip and then provide a plastic box with damp sphagnum as a humidity hideout for the snakes. This type of setup can work well and is easy to keep clean.

Eventually the Burm will get too big to keep a cage full of substrate other than newspaper most likely, so you'll have to deal with humidity another way, like a large water basin or something like that.

dirt.balls like more packed substrate and burrows then
burms do of course.

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Coconut barks works great! I was at a show one time and one of the vendors that was selling the stuff had a small quarter inch square piece of it and put it like a tablespoon of water, it literally sucked the water almost completely up! Spot cleaning the stuff is great cause the subtrate will actually pull any moisture out of the dropping, and stick itself to it. Highly recommended!!