Newspaper, it's the aussie way! Cheap an easy, what more do you want?.....Looks?....Look at your snake!
Newspaper ensures your snake is always the main feature
Ive used breeders choice or similar since my first snake, never had one drama with it, and it works as a insulator for the base of the enclosure too. Newspaper is also fine, but if you have branches and things mounted to the base like i do then the breeders choice is better to push/mould around things.
sand for me. any type of paper is useless to my male bhp. it ends up scrunched to the sides and he gets underneath it and poos straight on the bottom of his enclosure no matter how many layers i put down.