I am at a loss for what to do with substrate, right now I'm using this stuff called Habi Chip that I received from lllreptile.com when I purchased my snake (cali king) at the expo, this is what the snake was housed on. I brought it home took out the astro turf and put in this habi chip stuff put my snake in there and he seemed fine even eating his first meal.
But the problem is that I feed frozen thawed, and snakes like to throw their food on the ground which means it picks up some of the substrate and the snake ingests it, but if I feed in another container people say(and I don't doubt) that it stresses the snake out and when putting back in even if you only pick up for a second could case the snake to . I tried the astro turf but it just didn't look pleasing at all and I was very worried that my snake would try and go under and go by the heater. my king also likes to burrow under the substrate and stick his little head out on the cool side.
ugh so what do I do?
But the problem is that I feed frozen thawed, and snakes like to throw their food on the ground which means it picks up some of the substrate and the snake ingests it, but if I feed in another container people say(and I don't doubt) that it stresses the snake out and when putting back in even if you only pick up for a second could case the snake to . I tried the astro turf but it just didn't look pleasing at all and I was very worried that my snake would try and go under and go by the heater. my king also likes to burrow under the substrate and stick his little head out on the cool side.
ugh so what do I do?