What do you use to clean your terrarium/tubs?

Hey everyone, i'm wondering what you guys use to disinfect and clean your terrariums or tubs. I'm currently using Healthy Habitat cleaner (24oz bottle runs me about $12). It was recommended to me and has been working out pretty well for me but I want to see what the rest of you use. Maybe there's a better alternative for me and I'm just curious to see what else is out there.

Also, I would think it would be a good thread for the newer owners to check out what can be used to clean their animal's habitat safely.

I use a Chlorhexidine mixture with distilled water. I think quite a few other people use it as well. It's what most vets use from what I understand.

I use diluted Chlorhexidine and Healthy Habitat. I will also wash out tubs with dish soap and water after spraying them down with Chlorhexidine.

I've just purchased something called 'Ark Klen' My male BP had an awful ammonia smell in his tub which wouldn't go away with good scrubbing so waiting for that to be delivered this week. A few people over here in the UK suggested it to me, not sure if available worldwide but it may well be :)

I use a 1/32 bleach solution on my tanks/tubs, and it has worked well. This was recommend to me by exotic animal instructor who is also a veterinarian and reptile specialist.

F10, chlorohex, or green soap.

Cheapest dish detergent the store has, my shower, and a scrubby. After washing, cages are wiped with a rag soaked in alcohol and allowed to dry out completely.

I was using anti-bacterial spray, a scourer, water and a lot of elbow grease....

I use F10.

F10, the stuff is so concentrated that even a tiny bottle lasts ages. In fact It's taken me 18 months to use 1/2 of a 100 ml bottle and I spray down the tubs every time they do a urate.

Generic unscented baby wipes to clean the tub after removing soiled substrate when spot cleaning, F10 for disinfecting after a whole-tub deep cleaning.

Soap and hot water if the tub is really dirty. Otherwise the tub is scraped out and filled with clean bedding once a week. I disinfect on rare occasions. There's just no need to keep everything hospital sterile all the time.

Simple Green

F10SCXD for cleaning
F10SC for disinfecting

It seems like most of you use the F10. What's the delution rate do you use?

On their website it says 1:250 to 1:500. Is this correct?

http://www.f10biocare.co.uk/dr.html

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Originally Posted by Misha

It seems like most of you use the F10. What's the delution rate do you use?

On their website it says 1:250 to 1:500. Is this correct?

http://www.f10biocare.co.uk/dr.html

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F10SCXD cleaner I did around 1:300.

F10SC disinfectant I was around 1:300.

That range on their website seems correct.

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Originally Posted by Misha

It seems like most of you use the F10. What's the delution rate do you use?

On their website it says 1:250 to 1:500. Is this correct?

http://www.f10biocare.co.uk/dr.html

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It depends on what you want to kill. 1:250 will take out everything from MRSA down (if applied correctly), and that's the strength I use. A rack is a pretty small little ecosystem, and if anything gets a chance to take hold it would spread rapidly, and the snakes can't move away of their own volition.