Cleaning or disinfecting? They are not the same thing.
Cleaning is easy a bit of soap or detergent and stiff brush.
Bleach is not a cleaner it is a bleach and disinfectant. Disinfectants are used AFTER cleaning.
The use of bleach as a disinfectant is also easy.
1 table spoon to one gallon of water. Wash, wipe and rinse items with detergent (or soap) and water, then apply sanitizing solution of bleach and water. Let stand 10 minutes. Rinse completely no smell should remain. To be extra safe leave to dry in DIRECT sun (not from a window UV breaks bleach down). Reptiles are fairly reactive to bleach so be careful.
There are other disinfectants around that work well, the two big names in reptile specific are F10sc (F10scxd is the recommended detergent) and chlorhexidine. The big difference is stability F10 keeps for 6 months, chlorhexidine keeps for 3 weeks diluted.
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