(05-12-2012, 05:12 PM)Fishbone Wrote: I actually wondered about the ink, but so many people have done it for so many years, it is pretty much proven safe. You can use any paper actually, just that getting newspaper is easy and basically free.
Just to add my two cents here, the professor/herpetologist who gave me my beardie also had a rather large collection of snakes on campus (well over 100 individuals), and he insisted on only black and white pages on top layers and pages with minimum ink...some say it only makes the scales dirty but he said there may or may not be a link between ink exposure and a type of cancer in snakes. I don't think there is any really concrete research supporting this either way. Not sure if the same applies to lizards, and snakes spend way more time in contact with the ink than a lizard would, anyway. There was a really great system in place for cleaning out all the cages in a timely manner and newspaper was the way to go
