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20-Apr-07, 04:22 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Newi Age/Gender: 25  | | |
hey guys had a mate ask me would it matter bout puttin shavings in his mice/rats tanks that could have some treated pine shavings in it??
i think prob best not to, but what u guys think?? does it really matter are the rodents gunna eat the shavings and poison the snakes??
cheers tonk
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20-Apr-07, 04:26 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Brassall QLD Age/Gender: 30  | | | |
In my opinion it would hurt them...... kill them actually...
I use breeders choice for my rats and mice... But thats Just my opinion and what I know as a friend of mine did it and she woke up next morning with all her rodents half dead......
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20-Apr-07, 04:37 PM
|  | Josh! Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Bulli, N.S.W Age/Gender: 24 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Aussie Python Lover  In my opinion it would hurt them...... kill them actually...
I use breeders choice for my rats and mice... But thats Just my opinion and what I know as a friend of mine did it and she woke up next morning with all her rodents half dead...... | ......or do you mean half alive??
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20-Apr-07, 04:38 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Brassall QLD Age/Gender: 30 | | | |
No meaning in the amount she had say for example she had 100 50 of them were dead............
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20-Apr-07, 04:50 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Feb-05 Location: penrith | | | |
i use shavings in my mice and rat cages and have never had a problem.
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20-Apr-07, 04:57 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Blue Mountains | | | |
i dont see a problem with normal shavings (in fact aspen, cedar etc are great and they keep the smell down) but treated pine?! Treated pine is laced with chemicals and i'd hate to be concentrating those chemicals in my snake food.
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20-Apr-07, 04:57 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | |
you can get mice friendly shavings....
But its so messy! Plus people have been known to develop allergies to the dust that it gives when cleaning. Not asthma friendly and can also cause eye irritations.
Breeders choice is easier to clean (in my opinion) and they love to move it around ect so it gives them something to do.
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20-Apr-07, 05:08 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | |
hysorb, dust exctractted wood shavings designed for animal bedding, available at most produce/farm supplies. very cheap.
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20-Apr-07, 05:20 PM
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Hysorb sounds ok http://www.ecw.com.au/hysorb.htm
But if you have asthma even though its been dust extracted i wouldn't use it......and we have used this in the past and people have still developed allergies to it.
But in saying that if you only work with male mice or rats you can also develop an allergy to them as well.
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20-Apr-07, 08:39 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Newi Age/Gender: 25 | | | |
ive used shavings from my mates joinery business for bout 5 yrs all softwood no treated pine at all never had a prob with it and i got bout 100 rats and 100 mice works for me!! was just wonderin if the treated pine would kill em looks like it would
cheers tonk
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20-Apr-07, 08:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 20 | | | |
if it didnt kill the rats it would accumulate in the the snake and may kill it after a period of time.
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20-Apr-07, 09:38 PM
|  | IrRegular Member Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 17 | | | |
i use pine shavings from the farm/pet food supply store,
works a treat and have never had a problem with it.
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20-Apr-07, 10:50 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Brassall QLD Age/Gender: 30 | | |
yes but if you all read he/she/they were asking about treated shavings as treated shavings can kill rats and mice and probably make ur snake very sick and NO im not being crusty either  so neer
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21-Apr-07, 08:09 AM
| | Seller | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Newi Age/Gender: 25 | | |
yeah thats what i was getin at APL my mate asked me if it would kill mice or snake i said prob be safe side not use it cause it could build up in rodents and poison snake like grim beny said..or kill em outright!! and im a he  
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21-Apr-07, 08:18 AM
|  | Friend of huey Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: on the coast Gender: | | | |
I am a carpenter, I would NOT use.
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