Cleaning habits

Hello everyone,
I was just wondering about about your cleaning habits for your enclosures. I know that this will depend on a lot different factors such as substrate and tank or tub. Thought this might be informative to others.

I'll start:
my two bps are in tubs on aspen bedding. i spot clean as necessary by removing solid waste and spraying with Healthy Habitat. Once a month remove the snake dumb all the bedding and disinfect with a Chlorohexadine solution.

Let me know what you think and also what u do.

I just use newsprint in my tubs. Anytime there's a "spoilage", I go ahead and clean the tub, hide and water bowl and lay down new paper. I'm terrible with keeping a schedule for cleaning....

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Originally Posted by mikedahitman87

Hello everyone,
I was just wondering about about your cleaning habits for your enclosures. I know that this will depend on a lot different factors such as substrate and tank or tub. Thought this might be informative to others.

I'll start:
my two bps are in tubs on aspen bedding. i spot clean as necessary by removing solid waste and spraying with Healthy Habitat. Once a month remove the snake dumb all the bedding and disinfect with a Chlorohexadine solution.

Let me know what you think and also what u do.

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You should be removing the substrate weekly, or at least every other week even with spot cleaning.
I'm not sure if I misunderstood you or not.

Papertowels, cleaned with every go.

I keep mine on unprinted newspaper and clean every tub on fridays.

i use repti bark or aspen.i clean when the tank becomes a lil smelly.roughly every 2 months.

I use Kraft paper and clean when they poo or pee and also if their is any other signs of ickyness.

I also clean the water bowls every day since this gives me reason and opportunity to check the snakes, their condition, if in blue, etc.

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Originally Posted by Mikkla

I keep mine on unprinted newspaper and clean every tub on fridays.

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That's exactly what I do! Unprinted newspaper changed on
Friday. And then once a month I completely sterilize with a 10% bleach solution. When your collection builds up to a certain level, it is helpful to have a schedule for all of your maintenance. Break it down into parts and do one task on the same day every week. Stick to this schedule and it becomes routine.

Ooops, I forgot to mention that when I clean the tubs, I wash them with soap and water and then spray with chlorhexadine or Novalsan (depending on which I have at the moment) and let it stay on the tub for a few minutes and wipe down and let air dry. Whew!!!!

If it's a snake in a cage, I plop the bugger into a spare rack tub (I know, I know, spare tubs are evil!) Then I light soap and rinse the cage and then chlorhex or Novalsan, blah blah blah ;)

Quick question - apologies for going a bit off topic - but are Nolvasan and Chlorhexi pretty much the same thing, or can they at least be used interchangeably? I can get Nolvasan easily, but Chlorhexi is a bit of a bother to acquire.

They are very similar but N. is a wider range. I forget what it kills that Chlorhex doesn't.... but it is something.... Oh gods, where's Becky when we need her..... :oops:

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

You should be removing the substrate weekly, or at least every other week even with spot cleaning.
I'm not sure if I misunderstood you or not.

Papertowels, cleaned with every go.

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I remove the soiled substrate but not all of the substrate. I thought that spraying Healthy Habitat broke down "organic contaminants" like poop. Anyway, what is the point of spot cleaning if you have dump all the substrate out every other week any way?