Premium Reptile Bark, 24qt

Best enclosure substrate there is.

I own 10 ball pythons. Have tried every substrate around, this is by far the best one for the best price. you don’t have to worry about pieces getting stuck on feeders and getting them getting stuck in snake’s mouth or causing a blockage in the digestive system and it holds humidity perfectly.

Repti Bark By Zoo Med very good substrate for reptiles I use this In my 55 gallon tortoise enclosure I've tried other substrates and this Is the one I like most lasts a very long time easy to clean due to it's large chunks of wood very good texture would recommend this over something like coco fiber bedding plus this stuff smells like the forest and makes your enclosure look nice

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Great size chips, works great as a substrate for potting soil.

This works well in our snake’s terrarium

My greek tortoise loves this bedding. Well, I can't say that for sure, since he doesn't talk. But if he did, he would tell everyone about how he buries himself in this bedding all day and sleeps for hours on end, like the lazy jerk he is. This is perfect arid tortoise substrate. The wood chips are in nice, smooth little bits that aren't twiggy and splintery. It's easy to pick out his food remnants and weird little turtle poops, leaving his pen fresh and clean. I also used this bedding for a pet praying mantis. When they're babies, they're the size of a staple, and easy to lose in other wood bedding types. They can't hide so easily in this stuff. When she got big enough to eat crickets, this bedding was easy to clean the cricket remnants out of, again, because the wood bits are so smooth and homogenous. This bedding isn't very dusty. It would be an excellent bedding for rats, hamsters and mice that are more prone to respiratory infections from especially dusty wood substrates, like pine. It's also pretty absorbent and doesn't have much of a wood odor, so your house won't smell like a hamster cage 24/7. (unless you like that stuff) Plus it's very nice-looking, for wood chips. Until someone or something convinces me otherwise, this will always be my bedding of choice for my small animals.

I am using this substrate for my 2 tortoises (hermans and sulcata). I have used the forest floor substrate, reptichip, and other coconut substrate and this one is by far my favorite. 1.) It smells good and is easy for my tortoises to walk on or dig in. 2.) Its not dusty, my tortoises stay clean and when I remove it from my terrarium (to clean the tank and put a new substrate in); I'm not inhaling a ton of dust and the room around stays clean. This was the biggest problem I have had with other substrates, they're too dusty. 3.) Its a great price for the product. I had to purchase 2 of the 24 quart packages to fill my ~4 foot by ~2 1/2 foot terrarium. Obviously, will be purchasing again!

I've used Zoo Med products for years. This "Reptile Bark" is by far the best substrate I've found for my Ball Python. It holds moisture well yet is resistant to mold. It is very low in dust and easy to spot clean. To do a thorough clean of the substrate (if you choose to) and reuse it, can be tricky. Putting it into a 5gal bucket, then covering with screen material and a bungee. Afterwards filling with super hot water and a cap full of bleach, draining then rinsing, is how I do it.