new enclosure

[el lobo]

I recommend coconut husk...it doesn't seem like many people here use it, but it is odourless, absorbs odours, looks great, and only costs about 8 dollars for four bricks! You just put a brick in a pail of water, and it expands. then you can ring it out, and spread it in your viv.

[infernalis]

I recommend coconut husk...it doesn't seem like many people here use it, but it is odourless, absorbs odours, looks great, and only costs about 8 dollars for four bricks! You just put a brick in a pail of water, and it expands. then you can ring it out, and spread it in your viv.

For me this is a love hate relationship. I found a vendor where I can get a 3 brick pack for around $5, it's compressed, so it ships easy, its attractive, etc..

But I have had 3 neonate snakes ingest and choke on it. I still use it, but with adults and as a ground surface in the arboreal enclosure.

For neonates (babies) I prefer cage carpet, the adults are easy to feed in a tote, but a tank full of squirmy little babies, that's another thing entirely.

Feeding on the grassy end is no guarantee of safety, many of my garters will grab up a food item, and for lack of better words, "prance all around" with a fish or crawler hanging from their mouth.