Wipe out cleaner?

[CrazycatOP]

I'm not a strong person and I have a very old, very heavy tank housing a boa. It's almost time to clean it and I have a question. Is there a spray on wipe out cleaner that's effective and safe? I usually bring tanks to the shower and bleach them. I can't do that with this one. So how do you guys clean and disinfect your large enclosures? Like retic tanks.

[jmcrook]

F10SCXD cleaner/sanitizer and F10SC disinfectant. Comes in both a concentrated form or premixed and ready to use. I've ordered it from Reptile Basics, $15 for I think 100ml concentrate. 2ml diluted in 1L of water lasts me quite a while. Good stuff


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[CrazycatOP]

And you don't have to wash that out or anything?

[L.West]

You could also use chlorahexdine. If there was any remaining residue it would not harm your snake. You can buy this by the gallon online. Not to expensive either. I mix mine with water per the instructions and wash out my cages with it and wash their fake greenery too.

[ckuhn003]

You could also use chlorahexdine. If there was any remaining residue it would not harm your snake. You can buy this by the gallon online. Not to expensive either. I mix mine with water per the instructions and wash out my cages with it and wash their fake greenery too.

I just purchased chlorahexdine. Do you just spray down the fake greenery and rinse w/ water??

[bcr229]

Soap and water to clean, wipe dry. Spray with F10SC or chlorahexdine afterward to disinfect.

[CrazycatOP]

Awesome. Thanks for the responses. I'll look into both.

[L.West]

I actually soak my fake greenery in a mixture of Chlorahexdine and water and then rinse well.

[Vipera Berus]

For my indoor tortoise pens I found soap, water and elbow grease works well enough for general cleaning. Then again I do have to deal with the fact one species of tortoise I have carries a virus that is fatal to other species, only reason mine survive is cleaning them out every third day and never cleaning them the same day - worked out well enough and avoided problems that way.

[Trisnake]

I use chlorahexadine, love that stuff and it can actually be used to clean and disinfect wounds as well.