Odor Control Success

[Emmastaff]

I have just begun breeding mice, and plan to keep it small. So my total number of mice is probably much smaller than others. However, my strategy for combating odor has been successful so far. I thought perhaps it would be helpful to others. I have only two 10 gallon tanks of mice right now. However, as you know, they can stink to high heaven quite quickly. I have kids, and we like to have guests over once in a while, so I did not want my house smelling like a farm. I gleaned a bit of info from various people, and here is what I do.

-bed on pine pellets (Equine Fresh)
-Wash down cage 1x per week and submerge all cage accessories in Chlorohexadine/warm water solution. Scrub, rinse and dry those and return to clean cage.
-Air purifier in room.

I seriously do not smell the mice at all, and my husband (who is very picky about that stuff) does not either. I think washing the cage accessories 1x per week is the key. The mice mark EVERYTHING, and unless you scrub those down, there will be a residual odor. The pine pellets used alone, without anything else work great. (I tried topping them with shredded paper and aspen but that seemed to hold odor). The hepa air purifier takes care of whatever odor may remain.
Hope this helps! Just wanted to express that it can be done!

[punyhuman07]

Vinalla extract in there water is the easy way to go i just put to eye drops in each water bottle works like a charm

[suzuki4life]

Vinalla extract in there water is the easy way to go i just put to eye drops in each water bottle works like a charm

except vanilla will eventually draw bacteria to form in the bottle.

[Jeremy78]

Cull the mice and get some asfs. Then you won't have to smell mice ever again !

[tomfromtheshade]

Depending on how many feeders you need you might want to consider gerbils too.

Gerbils have pretty much no odor if you clean them weekly and they usually make better pets than African Soft Fur rats do, because it sounds like you guys treat them like pets.

[Emmastaff]

I suppose they are treated like pets to a degree, until they are fed to the snakes... But I do try to treat them well. If I switched to gerbils, wouldn't that make it hard for my snakes to switch back to mice or rats if needed? I'm having pretty good breeding success with the mice right now, so will probably stick to those.

[nor_cal1980]

Cull the mice and get some asfs. Then you won't have to smell mice ever again !

Is the odor on the ASF's pretty minimal compared to regular mice and rats? If so im switching over. I breed both mice and rats and i stay very on top of cleaning. A day or two after cleaning the smell gets kinda raunchy.

[spitzu]

It takes a couple weeks for ASF tubs to start stinking

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