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I went down to Petsmart to find some supplies and crickets last week and I noticed that all they had for cork bark was flats. I've seen the tubes before but my slings are quite small and all the tubes I've seen were a bit too big to fit in these little guys enclosures. I live in a pretty heavily wooded area and I'm thinking about just going out and snagging some bark from some of the local trees, cooking it to prevent stowaways and using that. We have quite a few mimosa trees around here and the bark strips really easily. Once dried it becomes very stiff and would make an excellent tube. My question is, would there be any problem with using local tree barks? I mean aside from pine or cedar or any other aromatic wood that is. I think mimosa would be a great bark but I don't know anything about it's toxicity or lack thereof. I do see ants all over them so I don't think they'd be too toxic. Should I try to find something else?