For those of you who use cypress or a similar substrate, how do you keep it clean? As I understand, ball pythons pass both liquid urine as well as urates. How do you clean out the liquid urine? I assume you can't even see it if cypress is used. The last thing I would want to have happen is scale rot, but my house is cold and a ceramic heat emitter seems to be the only way to keep the temps up, but of course, it kills the humidity (I currently use newspaper). Any tips, suggestions would be great.

Also, when I break down and disinfect the entire tank, will the uth get damaged if it gets wet?