Cage cleaning query

I am gonna clean Jubs home for the first time next week when I get back from vacation. I use Reptisoil for a substrate (or something like that name). While I was going to clean I was going to transfer jub jub over to a rubermaid and UTH for a little while why I did the cleaning. Can i use the reptisoil, just a light coating in the Rubbermaid, or would you suggest just newspaper?

My cleaning procedure I am thinking of doing this:
1. Dry out substrate and shovel it out of the terraium to remove most of the debris.
2. Rinse thouroughly with water.
3. Soak with bleach solution (what is a good ratio? 1:10 water to bleach or even smaller amount like cap full to a gallon?)
4. Rinse several times thouroughly.
5. Dry outside for 3 days in sun and fresh air.

If my process is hosed up somewhere please let me know...thanks.

Newspaper would be easiest and cleanest. Why 3 days for drying? Is the tank you are cleaning glass or plastic?

1:10 is a good ratio I use it and a regular (non scratchy) sponge on the tupperware to clean with. A thorough series of rinses coupled with good swabbing with a second (non bleach-infused) sponge


(EDIT - typing today is extra craptastic sorry)

Go Smulkin its your birthday ...
Anyways, I use around the same ratio of bleach to water.
Why would you dry for 3 days?!

Thought that the 3 days drying would raise some concern...I have a glass aquarium. Maybe only one day...just trying to schdule it out though.

I am leaning toward the reptisoil stuff (actually just saw it today when I picked up mouse it's called bed a beast I think) because He is use to living in that, and the feed tank is newspaper, so he would associate the newspaper with feeding and all. Whereas my clean/transportation Rubermaid setup I would want to have the soild substrate to accomodate his actuall living conditions.

By the way, with cleaning do I have to clean his wood climb thing, the fake plastic plant, and his hide and in the same manner? I already have cleaned his water bowl thoroughly (do that about every 2 weeks), whereas everyday I change and rinse out the bowl.

For lots of good info, read Jonah's Cage Cleaning 101.

Thank you for the link Marla...I will probably go bleach and alchol for the first clean, and I will invest in that Virosan stuff.

Virosan totally rocks! You will love using it.