Best way to house 1 snake

[KMG]

I don't understand how it smells. I have several naturalistic terrariums with cypress mulch or eco earth, fake plants, live plants, climbing structures, and hides. The only things I have ever smelled is the fresh substrate smell.

What are you cleaning with? I use healthy habitat and really like it.


For spot cleaning:
I remove all snake waste and the substrate to the cage bottom. I then spray and clean with healthy habitat. Then I spray with water and wipe it again.

[shelby9189]

I don't understand how it smells. I have several naturalistic terrariums with cypress mulch or eco earth, fake plants, live plants, climbing structures, and hides. The only things I have ever smelled is the fresh substrate smell.

What are you cleaning with? I use healthy habitat and really like it.


For spot cleaning:
I remove all snake waste and the substrate to the cage bottom. I then spray and clean with healthy habitat. Then I spray with water and wipe it again.

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Where do you get healthy habitat? Do you clean the whole tank with that to ?

[KMG]

http://m.petco.com/product/13344/Nat...y-Habitat.aspx

Petco. It is safe for the whole cage even with the animal in it. It's all natural, which I like.

[dave21]

I don't understand how it smells. I have several naturalistic terrariums with cypress mulch or eco earth, fake plants, live plants, climbing structures, and hides. The only things I have ever smelled is the fresh substrate smell.

What are you cleaning with? I use healthy habitat and really like it.


For spot cleaning:
I remove all snake waste and the substrate to the cage bottom. I then spray and clean with healthy habitat. Then I spray with water and wipe it again.

Well my snake seems to like going on his fake plants and substrate right under the heat lamp and the lamp just makes the whole tank reak of feces and even after spot cleaning everything will just have a lingering odor. Even the vent in the accurite smells like feces lol. I think the heat lamp just makes it worse. A full cleaning and substrate change and soaking all the decorations eliminates the odor completly.

[dave21]

http://m.petco.com/product/13344/Nat...y-Habitat.aspx

Petco. It is safe for the whole cage even with the animal in it. It's all natural, which I like.

And i will deffinitly look into buying this, thanks!

[shelby9189]

Okay thank you I will def look in to buying this. And you can spray it on all the hides also?

[KMG]

You can clean everything with it. I even clean glass and plexi with it. If my snake gets things dirty I will remove the item(s) and spray them with the cleaner, scrub it, rinse with water, then place it back in the cage.

[kitedemon]

You should not have any smell. This is an ear mark of poor ventilation and or poor cleaning. Oder is caused by bacteria. Proper cleaning kills bacteria and Oder with it. Poor air flow allows excellerated bacteria growth = more odors.

Healthy habitate is a great product but it is an enzyme and is neither a cleaner nor disinfectant. It is a post cleaning and post disinfectant.

I would suggest proper cleaning materials (f10 or Chlorahexidine) • follow the instructions • and more ventilation. This is the problem with reducing the air flow of a open top it is poorly vented to start with.


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[dave21]

You should not have any smell. This is an ear mark of poor ventilation and or poor cleaning. Oder is caused by bacteria. Proper cleaning kills bacteria and Oder with it. Poor air flow allows excellerated bacteria growth = more odors.

Healthy habitate is a great product but it is an enzyme and is neither a cleaner nor disinfectant. It is a post cleaning and post disinfectant.

I would suggest proper cleaning materials (f10 or Chlorahexidine) • follow the instructions • and more ventilation. This is the problem with reducing the air flow of a open top it is poorly vented to start with.


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Im not saying my room smells just inside the cage. Only half the top is covered so it is deffinitly not a ventilation problem. I only had the snake 3 weeks and spot clean every time. All poop smells i just think the wood absorbs it more and the heat mskes it worse. Its faint but still there. Never had the problem when i had colubrids because i housed them on paper towel in a rack. I will just clean more often and remove the bedding in the spot where he defecates.

[kitedemon]

I think you mis understood my post I was bouncing around on a bus writing so forgive me this. I did not mean your room smelled but the enclosure should not. Tanks by the rules of air movement do not vent well. A fully open top will only vent about 60% so covering up 1/2 depending on how you do this could reduce this to less than 10%. The best way is leaving the both ends open and covering the centre promoting air movement. Remember 7 times the height on the horizontal will have poor air movement. Most tanks that means the whole bottom is poorly ventilated. Why I'd use side turned it allows low vents so only 5-6 inches in suffer from lower ventilation levels.

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Disinfecting removes smells. Many fail to follow the instructions on the particular chemical of choice so it does not disinfect at all. Following the instructions (duh) they work well. Odours signal one or both of these issues there should be no smell at all but the smell of the substrate. Nothing ever should smell close or 'basement, old, musty' smell usually this usually signals poor ventilation.