well i plan on buying a cornsnake soon as soon as my bearded dragon moves out of his 10g tank and i was reading that a good substrate for snakes is newspaper but that they also like to dig and i saw this so would this stuff work for a snake? also one more thing if anyone knows any reputable cornsnake breeders i would aprrectiate it
my main concern would be that the newsprint ink could discolor the the snakes bottom side. as for breeder google up Kathy Love i think the web site is www.corn-utopia.com or very similar also calas corns -Joe has some nice snake
Kathy is probably top 3 corn breeders in the world. They may ingest the substrate you posted but I'm not sure. I'm a fan of aspen.
I don't know about discoloring snake scales, but I do know Yesterdays News will discolor white cat paws.
I don't think it would discolor your snake. I use it with my white mice and rats and they're fine. I would, on the other hand, be worried about the snake ingesting it. That and it's not a very soft bedding. I always use aspen over it.
Personally I would not use Yesterdays News as a substrate. I used to keep my Skinny Pig (nearly bald guinea pig) mainly on this stuff, and within a week he had bunions and spurs and cuts on his feet from these hard and sharp pellets. The pellets are rather heavy in a mass, but they are very absorbent. I now use it combined with Carefresh in my skinny pig's cage too absorb excess urine, but only as a base.
lol yes it does i have 5 cats and 2 of them got their paws temporarily died black after that we stopped using it, lol
