How often do you clean?

Just wondering what substrate you keep your ball on and how often you clean it out? Do some substrates require more cleaning than others?

I keep most of mine on aspen. I spot clean everyday, change the water once a week and do a full scrub down at the first of every month.

Coconut husk over reptile carpet, I spot clean when I see icky stuff, change the water every couple days, and take every thing out and scrub every month.

I have a rack system with tubs and use indented kraft paper for substrate. I remove and replace it when it gets soiled. I also disinfect tubs once every 10 days or anytime they poop or urate.

Also, sometimes like this morning when my Pastel Lesser managed to get most of the contents of his water bowl outside of the bowl, a quick 2 minute tub wipedown and paper change will get everything back to normal.

I use Eco Earth so I spot clean daily Water everyother day and Complete clean once a month

I use unprinted newspaper so I change that out whenever they poop or pee. I disnifect the tubs when they are just nasty, and that is at least once a month that I do a full cleaning.

I use corrugated wrap, I cut 4 sheets per cage and just change out the piece that has been soiled. Super easy and very clean.

If you use a wood shaving/mulch/coco just substrate you will need to "spot clean" (remove soiled spots) then about once a month change out all of the substrate. This can be quite a task especially if you have larger cages.

I use paper towels. I just remove the soiled one and replace it with a clean one for my spot cleaning.

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Originally Posted by Slim

I have a rack system with tubs and use indented kraft paper for substrate. I remove and replace it when it gets soiled. I also disinfect tubs once every 10 days or anytime they poop or urate.

Also, sometimes like this morning when my Pastel Lesser managed to get most of the contents of his water bowl outside of the bowl, a quick 2 minute tub wipedown and paper change will get everything back to normal.

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I do the same as Slim, except I use unprinted paper.

Newspaper, and whenever they go to the bathroom I clean.

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

I do the same as Slim, except I use unprinted paper.

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I mostly use aspen Sanichips. It keeps humidity well and acts like cat litter. I spot clean that when needed and usually a full cleaning once a month.

I have some on paper towels when I run low on aspen or encounter mites. I hate it cause I have to change it every couple days. My kids spill there water a lot and paper towels just don't handle that like you'd think.

I've tried newspaper and that was just an overall bad idea. They'd just get under it or move it away and do their stuff there right on the naked tub. Thereby defeating the purpose of having substrate in the first place.

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

I mostly use aspen Sanichips. It keeps humidity well and acts like cat litter. I spot clean that when needed and usually a full cleaning once a month.

I have some on paper towels when I run low on aspen or encounter mites. I hate it cause I have to change it every couple days. My kids spill they water alot and paper towels just don't handle that like you'd think.

I've tried newspaper and that was just an overall bad idea. They'd just get under it or move it away and do their stuff there right on the naked tub. Thereby defeating the purpose of having substrate in the first place.

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That's one of the reasons why I use corrugated wrap over straight up paper now. it is much beefier so they can't mess with it as much but is just as easy to keep clean.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

That's one of the reasons why I use corrugated wrap over straight up paper now. it is much beefier so they can't mess with it as much but is just as easy to keep clean.

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If I could find corrugated wrap the exact width of an Iris MCB-L tub, I might consider switching over. I have no problem cutting it to length, but cutting to both length and width is a PITA.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

That's one of the reasons why I use corrugated wrap...

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Serpent, where do you get the wrap from? Just checking incase I do decide to change later. I can get packing paper for $4 for 70 sheets.

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Originally Posted by Slim

I...use indented kraft paper...

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Slim, where you get that? Is that regualr kraft paper or something else?

Mason, I appreciate the quote sir but I haven't had that problem yet. Plus I got a huge hall of unprinted paper when the movers came to move a friend's household goods when he went to a new duty station and he grabbed it for me. I like free and am willing to take a few minutes to wipe stuff down. I only have three BPs so it doesn't take me very long. I see plenty of folks whose BPs burrow in their aspen, etc and get right on the naked tub also.

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

Serpent, where do you get the wrap from? Just checking incase I do decide to change later. I can get packing paper for $4 for 70 sheets..

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There are a few places to get it online, just google it. this is where I have been getting mine (you can even get it in colors from this site)

http://www.papermart.com/Product%20P...x?GroupID=4608

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Originally Posted by Slim

If I could find corrugated wrap the exact width of an Iris MCB-L tub, I might consider switching over. I have no problem cutting it to length, but cutting to both length and width is a PITA.

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I can understand that, my cages are 24 inches deep so the 24" wide stuff works great for me but I probably wouldn't want to cut it if it didn't fit.

I switched from paper towels over to unprinted newspaper a month and a half ago or so and have been happy with it. I don't have snakes getting under it much and messing it up. It's incredibly inexpensive.

I clean when it's needed...pretty much as the snakes pass waste, usually once weekly, sometimes twice. I disinfect when I change out paper, and I scrub every other week.

I use newspaper. I change it when it gets soiled. Then disinfect with a bleach solution once a month.

I only have one snake, so I use repti-bark. I spot clean after every poo and deep clean every 2 week to once a month, it really just depends how could my snake decides to be. I think with even the neatest of snakes, a once a month clean is a good idea.

I think once you have 5, 10, 50 snakes.. any substrate that isn't paper towels, newspaper, or something similar just becomes really impractical and waayyy too expensive. I think we have all tried numerous substrates til we found the one we swear by. :) Really just preference, as long as it isn't cedar, and as long as it's kept clean, there really isn't a wrong answer.

I use a coco husk substrate and spot clean every day fresh water every 2-3 days and disinfect the water bowl weekly.

I do a nose check on the enclosures and clean them when they smell anything but earthy (the smell of the coco coir) and never longer than 2 months for a full clean disinfect.

I have 2 tanks, 3 commercial enclosures, 2 custom enclosures, 2 tubs, and a 5 hole rack one of everything. The rack has just bowl and an odd hide here and there. The rest have hides bowls plants and other stuff. I find the rack still to be the slowest to clean, about 3 hours or so the other enclosures all take about 30 min each. The only thing I dread cleaning is the rack it is very hard on the knees, elbows and back.

I use unbleached packing paper and clean and scrub with f10 every week.
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wow, i must be wrong then cuz me...

i check his enclosure every day (29h tank) and whenever i see pee, or poop, i spot clean that and replaces with fresh bedding (aspen), change his water and clean his water dish before doing so every 2 days, and i do a COMPLETE clean, when ever i stick my nose in the tank (even after a spot clean) and it stinks, which is about every 4-6 months. I have owned Vic since may of last year and i have only done a COMPLETE clean twice, as in it really stinks in there and it has to be done, with chlorhexedine. Then Again when i spot clean i tend to replace a huge amount of bedding with fresh bedding, and also spraying it down with healthy habitat and wiping that spot down. So maybe thats why it takes so long before it actually REALLY stinks in there.

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I use newspaper and spit clean whenever I see urates or feces. Just crumple up and replace. Every few months I do the complete tub scrubbing.

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Just a note on the two enclosures I use paper with every poo/pee is a full clean. Replace the newspaper, whip down scrub steam disinfect and return everything.

Cypress mulch in all of our tubs. Check everyone daily and spot clean when needed, change water if its dirty or atleast once a week and full cleaning every 1-2 months depending on how "dirty" the kids have been.