when to clean?

Quick question. When you wake up in the morning an notice that your BP has defecated overnight, is it ok to wake him up and clean his tub or should you wait until night time to clean once he has awaken?

Thank you

I'd say just clean it as the longer it sits there, the more likely he will make an even bigger mess for you.

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Clean around him if you can, wake him up if you can't. He'll go back to sleep when you're done.
It's likely that if you left it until the evening it wouldn't much matter because he'd just stay snoozing in his hide all day anyway. But then of course the one day you do that will be the one day he can't sleep and decides to explore his explore his existential angst through abstract art instead, and you'll come back to a multimedia Study In Brown.

The only time i don't immediately clean is when they are in the process of making more of their kind.

You're overthinking, just clean right away when you see it needs cleaning.


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You're overthinking, just clean right away when you see it needs cleaning.


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Yeah I agree. I'm always overthinking with him. First time owner so everything is new.

Yep I always clean as soon as I see it.

IMO, clean it immediately! Why take the chance of introducing bacteria that you can clearly see to your pythons respiratory tract? It's a health risk just leaving it there.

I clean immediately as well.

Fortunately 5 of my snakes go to the other side of the cage once they messed.

If Lizzy messes in her bowl, she will just lay in it forever if I let her. Punch will do the same whether it's in the bowl or on top of the substrate. Those two pig pens gross me outl:P

I keep a spray bottle of diluted chlorhexidine in the snake room. This is why I always preach to use paper towel as a substrate. You dont even need to move the snake to clean. I sometimes just tear away the paper towel that the poop is on, remove it, spray some chlorhexidine on some paper towel, do a quick wipe down and replace some clean paper towel. Takes no time at all.

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I keep a spray bottle of diluted chlorhexidine in the snake room. This is why I always preach to use paper towel as a substrate. You dont even need to move the snake to clean. I sometimes just tear away the paper towel that the poop is on, remove it, spray some chlorhexidine on some paper towel, do a quick wipe down and replace some clean paper towel. Takes no time at all.

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This. So much this!!!

I keep a bottle of F10SC on hand for it. I just scoop it out and a bunch of the aspen around it. Then I spray a paper towel down with F10SC, wipe the whole area and then smooth the aspen around it back down. Then once a month, I throw out all the aspen and F10SC the whole cage, then put in fresh aspen.

Thank y'all for the replies! I just moved him on unprinted newspaper from reptichip and just got the f10scxd. I know the xd has the detergent in it but should I have both on hand. One for "spot cleaning" if you will, and the other for weekly cleaning? I reckon I could just tear off the paper where the mess is then spray sc on paper towel and wipe down then full clean weekly.

I'm sure this is a lot easier than I'm making it but I tend to be a perfectionist when it comes to my boys(dogs & snake).

Personally I wake em up. I rather have clean safe places for them then a well rested dirty snake. They'll go right back to sleep once you close up their enclosure anyways.

edited to add, um... I am not sure about tearing out the newspaper part. When my noodles go on the paper, it soaks in and is pretty much all needing to come out.