Cage Cleanings - Minor and Major

How often do you all do cleanings of your BP vivariums, both minor and major.

Minor being spot cleans of feces and urinates, water changing, and general adjustments. Major being full teardowns, like changing all the substrate, cleaning the entire enclosure (like a glass tank), and cleaning and disinfecting all the accessories.

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We spot clean as soon as we catch a bowel movement, and we do a real good disenfecting every 4-6 weeks. Unless we don't catch a poop quick enough and the snake tracks it across the cage.

Depends on how many you have, we went to a program called Reptilescan, and use it to tack everything from feedings to vet visits, to cleanings, and much more. It's worth a look into in my opinion.

Mine are in tubs or PVC enclosures on newspaper. When they make a mess everything comes out, the tub gets cleaned and treated with F10, the snake gets cleaned if needed, then fresh paper and a new clean water bowl and hide go back in. Depending on the snake this could happen as often as every day for a few days, to once a week.

I spot clean daily.

Change their water every few days.

And do a whole thorough cage cleaning every 4-6 weeks.


There are always special circumstances that force me to clean their entire enclosure sooner than normal. 5 weeks ago, my albino pooped one night and slithered in it and had it all over himself, ugh. So I had to wash him and went ahead and cleaned all of their enclosures a little earlier than normal.

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Mine are in tubs or PVC enclosures on newspaper. When they make a mess everything comes out, the tub gets cleaned and treated with F10, the snake gets cleaned if needed, then fresh paper and a new clean water bowl and hide go back in. Depending on the snake this could happen as often as every day for a few days, to once a week.

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Same routine here!
When I did have a few of them in tanks I would spot clean was needed and do a deep cleaning each month.

[QUOTE=Gary P;2369744]I spot clean daily.

Change their water every few days.

And do a whole thorough cage cleaning every 4-6 weeks.


Same here

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Originally Posted by Gary P

I spot clean daily.

Change their water every few days.

And do a whole thorough cage cleaning every 4-6 weeks.


Same here

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Pretty much the same here.


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I try to have a 'No poop in the viv' policy.

no BPs here, but water gets replaced when dirt gets pushed in it, scrub their water bowls once a week and spot clean if the cleaning crew isn't doing their job, other than that no substrate changes for me.

I'm using bioactive substrate, so I don't do any major cleaning. I spot clean as necessary by removing poops when I see 'em and occasionally giving the glass a cleaning. I also clean and refill the water dish every other day.