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17-Apr-06, 03:24 PM
| | | enclosure substrate, whats best
whats the best substrate to use for childrens python, i was going to use newspaper but its ugly..lol |
17-Apr-06, 03:29 PM
|  | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25  | | | | Newspaper.. don't discriminate.
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17-Apr-06, 03:32 PM
| | | | not discriminating, just a novice and dont know anything, trying to get it all set up before getting snake |
17-Apr-06, 03:38 PM
| | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Come on now, you said you were not going to use newspaper as it's "ugly" :wink:
Seriously though, you just can't beat newspaper.
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17-Apr-06, 03:40 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | newspaper is dropped in your letter box every week, what more could you want??
butchers paper is good too, but it usually comes with a cost. |
17-Apr-06, 03:46 PM
| | | | im sticking with newspaper..lol thanks - is there any posts on here with pics of enclosures so i can get some ideas of what to put in mine |
17-Apr-06, 03:47 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Sydney NSW | | | | Newspaper is ugly.
If this will be your first reptile than go all out on asthetics. Make the enclosure a show piece of your house. If keeping only a small collection substrates like astro-turf, marine carpet, breeders choice, different timber mulch etc will look much better than plain old boring newspaper. However once you establish a large collection newspaper has the benefits of being easier & less time consuming to clean as well as alot cheaper alternative.
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17-Apr-06, 03:49 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: hunter Gender: | | | | depends on what snake your getting to what enclosure you should buy/build...newspaper is good as it reduces cage cleaning time, but if you have a small number of animals and your going for display there are some good substrates im sure someone can put you onto |
17-Apr-06, 03:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: hunter Gender: | | | | beat me to it jandc |
17-Apr-06, 03:50 PM
| | | | im getting a childrens python, got enclosure size 3ft x 2ft x 2ft, and yes its my first reptile |
17-Apr-06, 04:48 PM
|  | Hibernating Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: Melbourne - West Age/Gender: 39 | | | | Our first reptile was a Childreni (from Afro). He still stays in the same enlcosure and it has compressed sawdust pellets. The enclosure is ecked right out.
But we then got another snake, and another snake and so on and so on. Much cheaper to use newspaper and quiker and easier to clean. More time to play.
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