Hello! I currently have a Kingsnake in quarantine and am building her new home. I was wondering if having different substrates in the same enclosure is a thing that can be done.
I’m making it into a bioactive enclosure, and know the kings like to burrow so I was thinking about having space that was soil for plants and having other areas that were something else though I’m not sure as of this moment. The only thing I can think of thats close to what I’m talking about is what people for for hamsters.
Is this a possibility, or should I just stick with one substrate? Thank you!
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Welcome to the discussion board! I know little about bioactive setups, but I do know that it would be pretty easy to have a large container “pool” of a clean, burrowing substrate like aspen, maybe even multiple pools in different temp zones.
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Yeah can be done, we have an MBK.
Coco fibre, some spag moss, even a little sand, orchid back. We mix alsorts together xx
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Don’t really see any issues with it.
Worth noting though that the main issue wrt doing so for hamsters is they really mess up the place when digging, which is why a lot of people contain the additional substrates in separate containers (especially sand). Our colubrids aren’t quite as bad with their aspen, but I wouldn’t count on having two strictly delineated areas of subtrate. The problem is mostly aesthetic, but that can still be enough to drive people mad.
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