How do you clean BP waste?

[LadyOhh]

Dump the substrate, Chlorhexidine and paper towel to wipe down. Fill it up again with fresh substrate!

Get your stuff as clean as they would at the Vet!

Chlorhexidine for the win!

[Mikekrause2000]

Dump the substrate, Chlorhexidine and paper towel to wipe down. Fill it up again with fresh substrate!

Get your stuff as clean as they would at the Vet!

Chlorhexidine for the win!

wow! do that every time he poops? thats alot of substrate.

[jbean7916]

I use an extra cooking spatula that I had to spot clean. Improvise! ha

And my bf thought it was weird I used a cooking spoon to spot clean poo!! all my guys are on Eco Earth until we switch to racks so no worries about liquid urine right now, not looking forward to that change!

[LadyOhh]

wow! do that every time he poops? thats alot of substrate.

Spot clean with a cat litter remover, and once every two to three months, complete change out.

[loonunit]

I use blank newsprint, and I actually throw it out and replace it once a week. Every 2nd or 3rd week (depending on any lingering poo-smudges or odors) I'll wipe down with 10% bleach/water.

I don't actually wet anything. I find younger animals adapt quite quickly to Arizona humidity--and they pee in their hides, and that ups the humidity in there somewhat. None of the animals I got as hatchlings have shedding issues, and they're all healthy as horses.

I do have two animals I got as 2 year-old sub-adults, from a breeder in Florida. One of them has adapted, but the other still has bad sheds, and a tongue that doesn't always fork:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...doesn%27t+fork

She's otherwise perfectly healthy, and she's been doing better with her humidity issues. But I keep an eye on her, and I'll spill water and/or throw a wet towel over her hide when I see her going blue. ...and sometimes I miss it, and I end up having to remove her old eyecaps and tail tip because she had a terrible shed.

Substrate would be better for her. But my husband can't stand the smell of two months worth of python pee. So Lois and I get intimate with the tweezers a few times a year.

[loonunit]

...what the heck is chlorhexidine?

[Generationshell]

I stopped using Aspen because of the hassle of cleaning the tank. Paper towels work 10x's better. And I feel That I can clean the tank better as well.

[slitheringdead]

I use paper towels. Quick, easy, and inexpensive. I was considering aspen at one point, but it gets expensive and it's hard to spot clean.

I use Zoo Med Wipe Out 1 to clean the tubs.

[Sammy412]

Yes, I put the paper towels in there dry. How long they stay that way, depends on the snake

[gman8585]

chlorhexidine is used at the hospital I work at for cleaning skin before surgery.