Disinfecting and cleaning

The water bowl we wash with disinfectant hand soap and rinse well every time we change it. About once a month (usually after shed) we'll take apart the entire enclosure, use a clorox wipe and rinse well, then put it back together. Most important step: giving rotten snake a warmish bath (between 80-90F) so she poops in the tub, rather than nice clean enclosure. Then bleach the snot out of the tub.

Question: Is it ok to use baby wash (no tears/soapless) on my stinky snake? Some of the bath threads mention using it, but I wanted confirmation that I'm not hurting her with it!

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Originally Posted by jclaiborne

Thanks for the input, I have a wood hide and branches in my corns tank and plastic in the baby balls, I will give the wood a try in the oven, should the cleaning be done once a week?

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Monthly when the full tank gets cleaned and disinfected is fine. I'm slowly switching over to plastic hides as I've found the wood absorbes urine and feces or starts molding very easily, those get tossed. IMO wood hides are a waste of money.

We use F10 for cleaning and disinfecting. We generally wash with Dawn dish soap and rinse. Then spray down with F10 and let sit for 10-15minutes. Wipe and go. It has worked well for us for a long time with no issues. As for using bleach, we mix 1:10 ratio for bleach cleaning solution that we clean various tables and carts in our building. Also, as far as water bowls, we use disposable deli cups and replace weekly. No cleaning required and we know that no contaminates are in the water. We do change sooner if the BP gets the urge to "go" in its water bowl. Good luck!