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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    Chlorhexidine mix for spot cleaning and bleach mix for good cleaning...
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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    For cleaning I use dishwashing soap. For disinfecting I use Chlorhexadine or bleach.
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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    Clorhexidine for cleaning tub and hides and waterbowl, dishsoap for plants
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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    Quote Originally Posted by LadyOhh View Post
    Chlorhexidine or Novalsan.

    You can get it at any Vet supply store.
    I got a gallon of concentrated stuff off Amazon for ~$24 shipped. Its enough to make over 100 gallons of working concentration.

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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    10% bleach for a big clean especially when its a different animal than was in the tank before and Nolvasan for everyday.

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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    White Vinegar. It disinfects just as well as bleach and is nontoxic as well as cheap. Before someone pipes in with some comment about the smell I'll preemptively ask this, do you like the smell of bleach? If your great grand mother didn't use it then it probably isn't safe.

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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    I would argue that bleach is much better at killing microbes than vinegar....My great grandmother died of an infection that could have been prevented with modern disinfectants.

    If you're only cleaning, why waste the expensive stuff like chlorhex? Dish soap works great, and soap and water gets rid of 99% of bacteria. If you want to disinfect, follow up with a disinfectant, but be sure to pay attention to contact time. Chlorhex won't do anything for disinfection if you don't let it contact the surface to be disinfected for 10 minutes.
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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    Quote Originally Posted by LadyOhh View Post
    Chlorhexidine or Novalsan.

    You can get it at any Vet supply store.
    I soap and water the take all up, then rinse it out and use Chlorhexidine...
    I also leave the snakes "ornaments/furniture" as it was before so the snake couldn't possibly go into shock from too much cleanliness?

    Anyways, thats what I use.

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    Re: What do you use to clean?

    Chlorhexadine. Vinegar with water also works.
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