Going to get cleaner

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Southern States in the Richmond area carries Nolvasan (brand name chlorhexidine), and most carry both Nolvasan S (disinfectant) and Nolvasan Surgical Scrub (chlorhexidine glucosonate - the safer stuff).

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I call and they said they didn't carry that.. :mad: they must have not known what I was talking about. :D

www.valleyvet.com Fast shipping and you can get a gallon of the concentrate for around $15. I use it to clean tubs, clean water bowls, rinse out rat wounds(on the rats), wipe dirty snakes down, etc. It's safe to use inside the mouth and strong enough to kill your average bacteria. Also takes off urates very well :)

Chlorhex is good stuff.

Make sure you get the solution, not the scrub. The scrub is thick and soapy and not intended for use in spray bottles, but for direct cleaning of skin.

Also, (and this may be a regional thing as somebody else said it dosen't happen to them) if you dilute it with tap water, it precipitates out into a milky diffuse layer and forms a hard blue coating on anything that soaks in it (you wanna see cranky, picture me scrubbing dozens of little pointy surgical instruments left overnight in the stuff after a new hire mixed it with tap water). I imagine it would clog up spray bottles as well. This also happens when it's added to sterile IV fluids for use in flushing wounds...pretty much anything except distilled water.

To avoid this, get a gallon of distilled water and add one ounce of chlorhex - use that gallon jug to refill your spray bottle. It'll keep indefinitely this way and won't precipitate out.

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

Make sure you get the solution, not the scrub. The scrub is thick and soapy and not intended for use in spray bottles, but for direct cleaning of skin.

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I actually used the Nolvasan Surgical Scrub and did not have any issues like this with it in a spray bottle.

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

www.valleyvet.com Fast shipping and you can get a gallon of the concentrate for around $15. I use it to clean tubs, clean water bowls, rinse out rat wounds(on the rats), wipe dirty snakes down, etc. It's safe to use inside the mouth and strong enough to kill your average bacteria. Also takes off urates very well :)

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Thanks for the link. I just ordered up a gallon.

So if I make the gallon of chlorhexidine with DISTILLED water instead of tap water, it keeps longer? That would be nice because I would feel so wasteful having to dump so much cleaner down the drain because I only clean two tanks.

And thanks for all the replies. :carrot:

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

So if I make the gallon of chlorhexidine with DISTILLED water instead of tap water, it keeps longer? That would be nice because I would feel so wasteful having to dump so much cleaner down the drain because I only clean two tanks.

And thanks for all the replies. :carrot:

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Yup. A gallon of distilled water is about $0.53 at Wally-world.

Wow, that makes things so much easier.

Thanks everyone!