New BP soon, did I clean enough to keep this one alive?

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Wow drama, drama, drama. Follow the advice Dr. Del, Jeremy and Animals as leaders have given it’s all very sound advice. Most people here are very minimalistic with their setups, mostly because they are breeders and have several snakes. I however understand the desire to have a very pretty cage especially for 1 snake. I will explain what the zoo’s do to keep a clean natural looking environment.

1.All naturalistic bedding is first kiln dried and heated to a degree so that nothing could possibly survive in the substrate. You can achieve this at home by baking the substrate in the oven at 250 degrees for 60 minutes, allow it to thoroughly cool before placing in the tank.

2.Most of the logs, tree trunks, vines etc that you see in the zoo are made out of fiber glass and can be soaked and disinfected during clean downs, even the rocks are artificial.

3.I do agree what everyone has said about log hides, I make my own for my kings and corns out of fiber glass it’s actually pretty easy however you really have to let it air out for quite some time before putting it in the tank. Baked clay also works pretty well, but you can’t soak it.

As to your last snake dying, I am very sorry. If your snake did have a regurge it most likely had parasites and untreated they will kill your snake and sometimes before it even looks bad, that is one of the down sides of live pray, and is the reason I deworm all of my snakes every 6 months. Honestly though you will never know the cause because a necropsy wasn’t done. The best you can do is thoroughly clean the habitat and disinfect everything, throw out all off the porous stuff and start over.